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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to vanish into a world somewhat tangential to reality, somewhat well ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  students will develop a community among their peers, facilitated by MIT ... joined ~50 other MIT students and boarded a bus to the Camp Wonderland ... come up with a vision to change the world and a plan to put that vision

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must ... The Tech, went on a field trip to MassWeb, the newspaper's publisher ... things off with a lesson from ESD.950, the Engineering Leadership class the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  get used to it after a couple of sessions. She asked whether anyone had ... original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... pulled on a pair of sweatpants (to protect my legs against the sub

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  expanded to 22 campuses in 14 states. Camp Kesem at MIT, founded by Caroline ... provide…a safe place to be kids again and have fun, a network of other kids in the same boat with whom to share thoughts and feelings, and a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal ... Charles River, just adjacent to East Campus. Now, I'm not much of a swimmer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  hope. The next morning I managed to get a flight out, and I was off to ... first ever flight cancellation. Basically, I was waiting to make a ... phone came back to life, I had a message from the friend who was going to

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Connecticut with Mitra to see Abyssinia, an inspiring musical written by a ... Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... , later this week I am heading to the Ig Nobel Awards and to a five

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  motivated to build the skills to become a hacker by next year's HackMIT. New ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning ... ☺ And that happens to be just a little too far away, haha. Following two ... last week to a small rural area of India called Anaikatti. Since then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  about how to access our MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a Quest ... your QuestBridge application to apply for our Regular Action cycle, but you must let us know in advance by emailing questbridgeinfo
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of ... resources to help MIT faculty and students move their ideas from the lab to
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  Judge Appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals By Sharron Kahn Luttrell ... up a number of firsts. Raised in Baltimore by a single mother who worked as a secretary and a waitress, Moore was the first in her family to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  lifetime. Get ready to embrace it. Much love, A reluctantly, soon-to ... It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... to get sucked into the MIT mindset (or as I like to think of it, the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... to college admissions, once you get past the surface differences.) One

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what ... list-based posts this fall as I would have liked, I present to you a list

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even ... America won't be until April 8, 2024. I hope that as a species we begin to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of ... shared a guest post by Sam U. '16 about how MIT helped him launch his ... to Sam, asking if he wanted to contribute a guest post on his

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  together a guidebook, and answering a giant stack of email. It's going to be ... ), and, next Tuesday, a talk by Academy Award winner Michel Gondry ... It's really nice in Boston today. I've just returned from a walk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005