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• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... 5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  wanted to focus on their experience in the classroom by asking them about ... arrival to campus. “I think that model has been refined year by year by ... by describing the feeling as magic. He explained how he struggled to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  optimization problems by Sunday.”[annotation note="to be fair, we do also read ... problems with getting the code to work in realistic scenarios with noisy ... debugging work and trying to get BeaverCube’s attitude determination &

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real" anymore? In an effort to figure that out I wanted to have a conversation

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  common question I get about the class: no, you do not have to draw your ... another hour or so to ask her questions. She told us how to get good at ... transitioned to comics by deciding, after drawing Demonology 101, that was a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write ... this, I was really worried to get back my 8.02 pset. You'd think that if ... about physics.) Well, my 8.02 grader had written. Welcome to physics. Get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... college admissions process is spooky and mystical, presided over by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house ... 'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment ... of interactions, so we get to manage our contact with co-workers, local ... seeds!". Every time I see her, i want to stop by and buy some, but I haven

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  40. In lighter news, by this I mean I'm going to talk about things ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... (which you should all come to, by the way: the fun starts at 9:30 in the ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... scores sent to us by the testing agencies. Please be sure to have the ... Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... to blog. I moved to Burton-Conner this year, which, much like East Campus, has very different floor cultures, so I'm very happy to say that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... . Unlike most colleges, we get President's day off despite the fact that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . That’s part of why you were able to get this precious meeting time. So ... we get tough but informed questions, that’s a reason to celebrate. At ... . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get stories and tips. My ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  presidents aren’t just figureheads given arbitrary choices by administrators to ... make this plan more palatable to the residents. By the end of it all ... come next. I wanted to complete the Turnaround, I wanted to get freshmen

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  by offering nice dinners, and I was actually looking forward to eating ... for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong ... initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  decision. let's get to why dating an upperclassman early into freshman year ... . I want them to thrive at MIT, not start dating someone who's getting ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021