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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  -- and ours had to be "custom configured" by Adam since Macgregor has ... OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to ... was totally wrong about bikes on campus. I've always walked to class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his ... the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce ... fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people

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

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting ... fantastic Alumni to put together Admitted Student Gatherings to welcome you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition organized by MIT undergrads. Here's the official low-down! The MIT Society

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019: Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International Studies minor, taught by Lori Breslow and Bernd Widdig. Lori is the director

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  measure the accuracy of the midpoint measurement by comparing it to existing ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  it) to make his ideas happen. Zahir’s currently implementing ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  city's limit by designing the tower to rest on several stilts. The images ... Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 teams competed to see who could climb up the 18-story Green Building the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  Dear blog readers,  I have something to confess. I, Veronica P, am an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this ... . It's an itch that must be scratched. It's all consuming. I must make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  staff members to make and distribute popcorn as well as water during the ... beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  proximity to so many different countries make it so easy to hop on trains or ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  processed in plenty of time to make decisions. When we start reading, we ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  [by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11] Every Air Force ROTC cadet has the opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the ... Graduation. I have managed to make it through. And it feels absolutely surreal ... , thank you for giving me this platform to share my story and make my voice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  's a promise to all of you - I want to make sure my senior year doesn ... supposed to be "any MIT student," which means that anything I say has to make ... 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012