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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs yesterday in my favorite apron (I made the meatballs, and Adam made the ... all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... speak full sentences in the language now. I promised her she'll speak the language by the time I graduate) I'm still deciding whether or not to double

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... recently was awarded the John Bates Clark medal. As Matt's blog discussed, this year, MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu won the Clark medal. The MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  blog topics today. Kevin posted the New York Times article on MIT President Susan Hockfield, and Daniel posted the National Public Radio piece on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It seems that many of the admitted students already have an idea of what ... extremely varied too. I was wondering if the core curriculum limits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  atm. exploring the Cambridge/Boston area by foot — something i never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour bakery called Bova's in the [annotation note="Boston's Little Italy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it ... /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  happened very quickly. I first heard about the program during the summer from ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Tuesday before CPW, caught my attention in particular. In it, Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior once again persuades herself that MIT is the best place ... stayed up until midnight yesterday to review the MIT CPW (Campus Preview

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... mid-sentence when the lights flickered and went off. The hundred+ physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  Earlier today I read Michael Lewis' remarkable remarks at the ... and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... his time working at the derivatives desk at Salomon Brothers during the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of illegal downloading operations running throughout campus. I believe the ... discourages filesharing." So the Olympics just finished up. I didn't get a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to ... disappear within a day and made my way to class. Unfortunately, the pain did

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  , one after the other, in perfect linear narrative since i first stepped ... intersections, parks — evoke moments in the past, or sometimes collections of ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  . Whenever I finish a relatively mainstream series (ex. The Owl House, The Hunger Games, Avatar the Last Airbender), I spend hours watching nearly every video essay that exists on Youtube, dissecting the underlying

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed ... roller coaster. As a junior, it was a bit tough to sit on the sidelines and watch the season slowly slip through my fingers. I remember going to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024