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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... inside our individual rooms tend to be a bit more utilitarian, still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by ... forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  decided it was time to get the show on the road. We started our off ... üe. Serenading a special someone. Roberto "el Che" '12 trying to instruct his ... Yesterday was a big day for the news media, what with the automotive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... .  It was a great opportunity to see some wonderful speakers, connect with ... getting the chance to learn more about how other female engineers dealt with

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  rabbit to class. A rabbit. She brought a rabbit to a lecture about Thevenin ... a cat into a modern music class to save time after a vet appointment ... answers to some of the more general ones that might get asked again: Kate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  by passing the information to the proper people and getting the ... about it. I suspect it's because we mostly get new members by telling our ... never seen a braille printing press before. I seem to have been unable to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  they can, that they won’t have a chance to do their best because of all ... to help us understand how you might have been impacted by COVID-19 or ... made a difference in our process – who you are, your approach to life and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus ... it had begun to seem, I eventually did get into a medical school that I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  ... Whoever writes a comment that makes me laugh the hardest will get the scrap ... Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  to talk to / get to know we’re analyzing a film in literature and ... can, as long as you get permission to use a space, make sure you build ... -like college here] where everyone's competing for A's all the time and i get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... internet or even snail mail, but by Hermes, the messenger god. It was a ... emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  was able to get by without actually having to do work. At the time, it ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly ... many p-sets to finish! After a while, I realized that my dad was on to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , quantum and quilting, agriculture and archery — they are united by a shared ... . Getting to “meet” so many capable, compassionate students through this ... is more than a job: it is a privilege and an honor. We are grateful to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  meant to get along very well was a very valuable life lesson. When I came ... enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with ... transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... -lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the ... the Media Lab, taught herself enough synthetic biology to create a small

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  fly. We tried again. This time the code worked. We were able to get a ... York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... 't even know I wanted to do it until a couple of weeks ago. But they did say

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  kitchen that you can use to cook food in, and if you get a few friends ... get, (or if you can get the loan at all!). Well the only way to get a ... Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009