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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of Afghanistan?" "What would allow the Roman Empire to last until today?" Table ... break I started looking around for more fantasy books to fill my time and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even ... -doc and my primary mentor for the summer. After introducing me to a number ... "Established for the Advancement of Science" suddenly held an entirely new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend ... Magneto, I had to write new vocabulary words that I learned from every ... Now everyone raise your hands if you used to watch Saturday morning

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... I got to know him well while working at MIT, he surprised me by being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the ... include (photo cred for all 3E pics above: Sarah H. '19) Written by Allan ... Sundays trying to figure out which venue optomizes everything we wanted for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply. Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... to get there? [Continue reading "Outside the Norm"]

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation ... Per Child, or MIT's Public Service Center - to name just a few - for ... the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  worry about getting run down by bicyclists who are, as far as I can tell ... fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to ... . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  there's not enough suffering for him to feed on. Once term starts, he ... My last few entries have been, well, very academic. You get the point ... work. I decided it was time for another "fun" entry. I mentioned in my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  . I thought it'd be fitting to get my book signed for my high school ... present evidence that so far I'm 3 for 15. Hopefully I will have things to ... introduced this post afterall. ANYWAY #6. Get Junot Diaz to sign my book

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• 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 ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... considered. I have to get back to my readings, but hello from Detroit, and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to ... Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... kids off drugs and helped orient freshmen and new students to my school ... . Interview 2001: None. I was too shy to sign up for an optional interview. 2005

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it ... : as if someone was shaking me by the shoulders, urging me never to take

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... (for example, “end call” or “go to another page”) for every point in the ... finalists for the contest, which meant a free trip to California to present

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  miss spontaneous trips to diners at 3am. I miss feeling excited for the ... other and tower over me, daring me to shirk them, just for a little. See ... nothing more than an walking IV for them. When will it be my turn to rest

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  the other side of things for THINK and getting to work alongside people ... to think.mit.edu for guidelines and more information. We’ll be hosting ... 11/6 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions answered or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us ... For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025