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• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  gauge your level of interest when deciding whom to admit. But for MIT ... posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield's trip to the White House to join President Obama talk about clean energy research (video

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  joints. Then, we had to hook up the joints to a user interface to get them ... , namely toon shading, outlines, and hatching. Toon shading is a way to get ... is a way to get a model to look as though it was drawn with hatch marks

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  also decided to leave out the anchovies because I was too lazy to get ... 's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the ... to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... desperate to get some numerical data, so I attributed these disappointing ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  ’s pretty much also impossible to not know your professor. Instead of the ... that your professors are really awesome and fun people who also happen to ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  get credit for the dimples. And suddenly, you’re kind of…free? Only for ... themselves into your lives. Hopefully, they’ll come to understand the things that get you excited, the little segments of your lives that blend like

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... . Please send the below text and attached pdf to each of your Senate contacts ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  enrolled at MIT. So for all of you who are looking to merge your talents in the arts with your passion for all things techie, look no further, you ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  Airbender, write poetry, and spend more time getting to know the area better ... playlist of all of them is here, for you to shuffle at your own risk: https ... reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  . They say never meet your heroes, but I am here to tell you that Woodie is ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  computer. At this point you're probably wondering if I'm going to dictate my ... I digress, and I went off to start getting caught up with manuals. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ) had to say about it: I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a ... ... ah, New England weather. More time to do homework? Something like that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get ... ="aligncenter" width="251"] Kidist and I getting pizza in the North End in October! She (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  ? Sad is when you get an undesirable grade in a class or your favorite TV ... death. There was guilt that the last text she sent to me promised to get a ... remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  upon hours of planning and effort to get the programs running this far ... to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at ... -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  I managed to get myself through the start gate. I have no memory of ... proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six ... Washington to get to the Tuckerman’s Bowl. The hike up is worth the ski down

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not ... your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay ... tiny. “Who’s your favorite supervillain?” We buzzed in to give our

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025