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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... encouraged to generate their own ideas based on personal experiences. Everyone ... inspiring other learners was welcome to participate. It was a hackathon of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone ... because I decided to stay up late and continue working on my critical review ... at 10 am and figuring out what tie to wear this morning was a bit of an

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  . -- 1 AM on a Friday night, I decided to break out my art supplies and ... escapes from the tennis courts to a vast Briggs Field trademarked by the ... change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be ... : Chennai is a very vibrant city with a unique coastal atmosphere. Jumping on a ... . This experience has sparked my interest in getting a job related to International

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12 ... goes, he won $3 on a "tic-tac-toe" scratch lottery ticket he received as ... cracking each card. I estimated that I could expect to make about $600 a day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... suddenly felt very old. To add to this, I have to declare a major by April

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  him to arrive. He breaks down on a regular basis, much like MIT students ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I ... friendship would be a bit toxic and codependent <3 Needless to say, she’s my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some ... time on a campus tour or during CPW (for those of you attending-I hope

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due ... students seemed to have a lot of control over their own lives. I liked that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... had a shadow today and Lujan met me at Building 26 and we talked to her ... last name), I said as I swung back and forth on his hammock, “I have a 6

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn ... purpose of this list is to just let you know where else they are on the web

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... to work hard. Well, happy and stressed. I think this is a pretty common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no less. the project, which Karyn refers to as a "20-channel Frankenstein

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On ... I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read ... the night. On my way to the T, something *large* blew up near EC (that

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... . The concert featured professional soloists, and it's always a joy to ... effortlessly through the high A's on "Thou Shalt Break Them." Go Jason Mc

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  time we got back to MacGregor, and captured on a non-cracked i ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... room several times before gently returning it to its original position on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016