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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  , someone called me by name, grabbed the other end of my suitcase, and said ... , memorizing the structures for every amino acid (still proud of that), and late ... build a robot that could win it. And at the end of the six weeks, there

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  Akamai and a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, tells it all - the ... personal tragedy of September 11th and the loss of co-founder Danny Lewin ... on the MIT home page under Education — click on "video"). This primary

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... , entertainment and media as an industry, and the power of a holiday special. I ... never seen this show, and was unimpressed by the vintage style of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... example, the Covid pandemic majorly impacted a lot of people, and those

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... and snagged 48% of the total votes in favor of MIT. Since such tactics ... , chutzpah, and bodacious craft of the voting public will be respected." And in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith, constantly drawing and re-drawing mechanisms of all kind. Remember Afeefah, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  , and frozen dinners, cooking is the kind of skill you’ll be glad you ... Chef, and Chopped. The overall formula for most of these shows is simple: you ... (the immediate weeks after REX, the week of Career Fair, etc…) and dry

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of ... recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  ;unenroll" at the first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead ... part of the admissions process. We colleges recognize and accept this ... should I do now? First, focus on choosing the best fit college of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... description of my weeks here and a whole lot of pictures will probably answer ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  've spent together so far, and to toast the next two years of our MIT journey ... whole new batch of brass rats! Each year, the Brass Rat has a slightly ... 's the real ring  And the designs on both sides Some of the unique

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  ="I’m going to break blog convention here and use only the first name of ... begins here Kickoff The first puzzle One puzzle down and more to ... puzzlehunt? The MIT Mystery Hunt is a puzzlehunt, the biggest and grandest of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  and the obscene amount of print statements in my code, and JUST so the ... never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour ... . Ah, bless the liberation of burnout-born apathy! So I left it half done

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  ASF, and really, all of TeamCrafted dominating the YouTube charts. Then ... first place, the magic of being reintroduced to it, and the genuine fun ... likes of Dan and Phil and other creators within the British Youtube sphere

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  energy in the first few weeks, learning a whole two and a half songs ... out on. I was skipping all of the hard work. Yes, it sucks. And it ... !”  And doesn’t that sound so stupid? The book of Proverbs, chapter 12 was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  video of the lecture on this page. And here is the syllabus: I'm glad ... -focused credit limit for first year students. As of today, you (the person reading ... salience of this subject, and consistent with a tradition of opening the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  first trick: Experiment #1: Testing the acceleration of a mountain bike ... intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don ... whole "point mass" approximation of the pendulum equation Results: Eh

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  First Team for air pistol and the Second Team in free. Walter Lin received ... first national title since 1974 by upsetting the U.S. Naval Academy at the ... team, Tech placed first in air and free, and sixth in standard pistol. On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  few paragraphs, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the link ... urchins for the first time and adolescence. It’s a short, satisfying five ... trying everything. As it is, the days are made up of meals, formal and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  unofficially and colloquially known as the class at MIT with the most number of ... Experimental Failure, the Gods of Insomnia and Frustration, and the Gods of ... and a source of information as the internment period dragged on. By the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010