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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... that in order to get the most out of my education, I was going to have to ... from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... to get back to reading, and hope you all have a great last month of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... departments. Giving MIT characters fake majors is nothing new, though: take, for ... , but team size is 15-18 students rather than 2 for 2.09. Near to 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  opened my eyes to creative places to tap into for inspiration, and I became ... primarily for freshmen. I think I’m more of a bottom-up learner that tries to get to the root of the lesson and build up. But with topics like

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  original Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes in 411 BC. This new version is ... [/caption] After the opera, we went to get tacos from El Jefe’s across the street ... sets the groundwork and frame for who I want to become and be.  Looking

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  selective universities, for the most part, hasn't changed. And with new ... 's easier than ever for excellent students to apply to and choose a school ... Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  free items in building 66, from which I managed to procure this shiny new ... desk a few days ago only to discover that the mechanism for opening the ... On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the ... silly for him to fly all the way back there just to turn around and fly ... Chris to good old American consumerism. I bought presents for my mom, my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  this desperation I can't even describe, this need to understand and get ... closer. It feels like something I should get. I whisper to myself, "You ... , but because this field is something so new to me and so not new to many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... comes out of the Human Dynamics Group, run by Prof. Sandy Pentland ... are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them ... some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... -- which tell students that they're likely to get admitted -- to "love

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways ... *bassoonist* for advice on what size cup to get. We laughed in our failure ... collision data to advocate for active transportation infrastructure introduced

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  learning algorithms developed for language to predict SARS-CoV-2 mutation and ... such a threat to humanity * How vaccines are designed * What the new ... A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... next batch came out fine. But then I ruined them by trying to turn them ... of the new ones. You might be too young to remember this (oh God), but

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... sadness by not responding to anyone for a week and playing a LOT of ... parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  excited. Excited because I'm always excited for a chance to learn new ... family. Then I flew back to campus for three weeks of IAP, which I filled ... . To get interesting things done, and go interesting places, solely

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  to continue their D-Lab projects for longer than three semesters - such ... , takes the principles of D-Lab: Design to a real-world level by showing you ... trouble for the group, until finally they were presenting the charcoal to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of ... likely receive the NBM® a bit later to allow time for this. 4) The vast ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  advice for the wandering undergrads including, "apply to grad school, even ... up and configured and the new linux computer polished up and ready for ... able to do any work at all. Also, we have a totally sweet new 3-axis

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  's trip to Australia, when he claimed it for England and named it New South ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013