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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... , quick to laugh, impossible to anger, and radically human-centered in ... 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

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  to make an attempt...every (government) wants to act in their own ... them - John Sterman - was nicknamed "Doctor Doom" by his students due to ... . All this prompted a comment by His Holiness that we need to take care of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz ... understanding, and will make the most fair decision that we can. More updates as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  So Sam and Mollie have both introduced you to their interesting ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  makes the decision. To fully answer your question, though, I need to add ... letter to the admission office?" We accept January scores on a case-by ... it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  fiction. It’s kinda lame! But c’est la vie. I want to learn how to Make ... .096 (architectural ironwork), 4.140 (How to Make (Almost) Anything), a Junot Diaz ... . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  MIT Activities Committee has a whole website dedicated to this."]you can ... Wicked soundtrack with my THX speakers cranked up to MAX bass. I am AMPED. Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  halls. You can read more about housing on our page Housing at MIT. Just ... choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  : schedule] 800+ students & alums came to Kresge Auditorium last night to ... : MITAA, Melis] ESPN.com's "Page 2" mocks MIT's football team... [read more: Page 2] ...while the men's basketball team heads into the break

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available You should now see it in your MyMIT account.

  

  Just a quick note - after this morning's build, you should now see ... 'm getting a bunch of comments in response to this post with financial-aid-specific questions and unfortunately I'm not equipped to answer them - please send them

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  leftover chicken from a different dish our mom made, so we decided to make ... specifically set aside a day when we were totally free to make it. Something that ... summer to make it. It was worth it! We ate the whole thing in the matter of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  the exam room, expecting to breeze through the test. However, I quickly ... , I barely scraped by with just enough correct answers to pass. But a ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  copy) if you want to do your own digging: COOL DATA HERE Quick Numbers ... chose the superpower of being able to travel as quickly as a car, compared ... The Quiz: HEY GUYS UPDATE THE LINK DOESNT WORK ANYMORE ILL TRY TO FIX

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  - you tend to learn the target language really quickly when your host ... Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  where you go to school. It makes one wonder . . . But enough of that, on ... I go to college. Yay! Here's the thing about college, every single ... , or Bookstore. Which of these three am I going to talk about? Well, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  worse than the first day we shot one-handed. Instructor Conti came by to ... minutes is so long, especially when you only have six shots to make. I was ... Sport air pistol, the PE class I took this quarter, was taught by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people within it. Each floor's walls are covered with murals painted by residents ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020