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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break of junior year, I got into MIT. “Got into” is here used idiomatically ... student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a pharmaceutical company in Boston (a lot of people take a year or two off between

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... PhD because he could kill me with his bare hands" kind of way? Maybe you had to be there. Russ may have also increased his chances of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my ... . These are the unmistakable signs of application reading season. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a ... .... [caption id="attachment_54023" align="aligncenter" width="537"] only one of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical ... language besides English I turned to one of the better suited places to do

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... serendipitous slew of events that happened before I found myself a part of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... , classmates, students of color. we talked about being white, and we talked about ... frustration and our feelings of inarticulation and confusion and powerlessness

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire Costco pack of fruity/sour candy, a movie, some foodstuffs, some other cool

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one ... if anyone was still awake. I replied "Yea! There's tons of us down here

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart-attack-worthy lies over the next couple of days. And this blogpost is all about the art of lying. We all know good lies contain a grain of truth, like how CPW

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning ... friends remain here for another couple of weeks. That, and my family will be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2018 are now available at >>>       ... of these students were academically competitive and well-matched, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to ... write about something special: numbers. See if you can make sense of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011