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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I ... go to charity. The Foundation to Decrease World Suck inspires me with ... . Dear Hank & John and Hank’s TikToks taught me to think more

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was ... visit that corner of my mind, letting our brainchild buoy me back to ... — our return expedited by promises to help our floor (Burton One!) run

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  I’ve been doing more reading recently, so wanted to share! “Detail ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... cutting-edge fourth industrial revolution technology to run through walls ... drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  ,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to ... are already signs of life. People have, slowly but surely, began to ... everyone, and I know that there will continue to be restrictions, I cannot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  -chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear! Panic! To address the worry that follows the question what if I actually ... possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  to make us feel better. However, there are some nice things about ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book ... to make veggie lasagna on Wednesday. We also have a finals board

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  open to it. It's 11:44 am right now and there are 24 hours and 30 minutes ... 17.5 minutes, and that you're probably too excited to sleep tonight ... remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ... like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ...  a cappella. Of course, the concert's not limited to just singing, because who

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It ... that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of me and the two other news editors to make sure that you get your bi

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday ... ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way, let's move on to the pictures... John '11 gets serious with the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  hilarious), I try to end my days reading journal articles, policy books, and other things full of ideas that tend to keep me up thinking. Few ... breathtakingly well written and fun to read. His Ethical Visions of Copyright Law

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top-notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I started thinking. Mostly to distract myself from the pain as I did this over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As nerds procrastinating psets are want to do, MIT students hacked the poll

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

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... commented, “Oh, MIT. My siblings went there,” and proceeded to talk to us ... into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and stupid sportswriters continue to laud players who play through injury. What we celebrate, and whom we praise as heroes, becomes what we want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011