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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... seemed to have. This was further enforced by the fact that my community

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  and u become afraid and need to be rescued by our tech support i.e. a ... I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and swaddled long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  that because it'd be funny to write a serious justification for whatever ... middle of a media studies class I was taking. I had to excuse myself to go ... week later I spent a part of it on GTA IV. I really want to know what the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice ... overview of go playing computers 10 tricks you can do with a hat How to tell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... 've done 3, so I have 3 to go."]a couple[/annotation]classes, but my duties ... students get tuition, free health insurance, and a pretty healthy monthly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  decided to take a year off to learn more about myself and figure out what my interests were. I deliberately decided not to come up with a plan for that ... to Pakistan for a month, and I interned at Amnesty International for a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  to do with myself. Today was a day of different feelings. Hope ... begin to rush over. I tell them not to worry about it, to get on with ... . Ten people that stopped in their lives to help a disoriented, highly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  a hotel, add two practices a day, access to a hot tub and a television, and you get rowers who row, sleep, eat and watch tv. Repeat. It was a ... dolphins. After a tumultuous journey home due to bad weather in Philadelphia

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  you'll get a chance to be part of the community here. Please let me ... figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... progresses, but I did want to take a quick break to at least give you all an ... 's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  I ended up getting to see Leslie in Kresge. sneaky far away ... A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  System": AGNES is a suit worn by students, product developers, designers ... by AgeLab researchers and students, AGNES has been calibrated to ... wall makes me feel old. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  ; the latter is to raise money for leukemia research, and was started by ... , who is a more educated but less devout Kelly Clarkson fan than I am ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company ... of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... thought the art installation was put up by a real institute committee! I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... there to help! Until then, try not to worry too much. If you want a ... all could use a little support from time to time.

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy ... ; 17.307 Excited for a class is a... strong term... but I choose to have

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  know this can be a difficult decision to receive; please trust that we ... . We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  Following last week's Lunar New Year post, Joanne got a beautiful ... was created by Jason '09, one of MIT's terrific origami artists. Count me among the very impressed. MIT is a great place for origami

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... through a series of challenges (an application, as it were) to test their ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011