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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High ... preference. So it partly referred to the school and partly referred to "technology" in the more general sense. "Life of a Tecker" was the title of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  and also play tourist on the weekend in another country, but even the internship alone was by far the best work/research experience I’ve had. I met ... the research enough that I continued working on it (at least for now

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant coffee, and anxiety. Suddenly, the faint siren song of summer beckons me over and tells me that I need my [annotation note="Boston also has the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• 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 post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I

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

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of ... before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... new favorite restaurants. I don't go there that often, because the food

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  After briefly lamenting the longer lunch lines upon the students' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  the Kresge Oval with some friends. As we ran around, we could hear music ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and roll across Massachusetts Avenue from Bexley, but these notes were the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  . Despite the rain showers and wet feet, it was wonderful. I'm glad that I don't have to leave this place for long... Friday June 6, 2008 began in the ... report to the gym between 7:45 and 8:15 am. With 2,335 graduates, there was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i. i watched the anime attack on titan last year and liked it a lot ... my favorite 30 seconds of the entire show (minimal spoilers present and ... scene, one of the antagonists appears and transforms into a titan. the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  ![/caption] Every year, the MIT Glass Lab sells over two thousand blown glass pumpkins to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  , clubs and UROPs are underway, and the realization that I have officially ... units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the ... physics at my high school, so I was definitely the most concerned that I was

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  new special topics course called CMS.S62: The Internet as Social ... students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  put off finishing all the half-baked blog posts from this month. The ... catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention ... of the dorm occasionally. So without further ado, here are some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  school, namely, the ABCDF system, except with a few additions. Below is a ... report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for ... /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  - but only because, as is so often the case with vacations, I return from mine more exhausted than when I embarked. So I've spent most of the day digging out from under the work that accumulated while I was not working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008