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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  population, you may be able to see it in your region -- check it out! ... the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived, the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... Wave/Outrun" playlist on Spotify. Prompt: "How many people live in your hometown?" My ... crewmates on the boards all the time, so I wanted to manifest that energy. At

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not ... learned how to set type, design a layout, and print our work on a handmade ... mates made a poster to cheer me on during my event. :^)  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  contests happen on campus? The students I'd spoken to were familiar with 100 ... crack their code and submit your resume. It was great to see Doge was ... ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  got back today. "Sam, please write neater. It's hard to read your hand ... opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already ... This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  On the third day there was abundant sunshine and temperatures were in the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... the senior thesis Mike Short '05 had to write to get his BS in Course 22

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  who go here just happen to be dedicated and driven, but if you're very ... can do is breathe deeply and concentrate on your passions. Let your ... 't let said persona write any letters backwards on your essays.) And above

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  with. With many changes on how to study, an extreme amount of luck ... nice to quantify this number. Somedays, the hours I would spend on zoom ... ."]she wanted to retire.[/annotation] I would start taking notes early on in the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  'm focusing on is Splash. If you don't know, Splash is basically MIT students teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... political science and economics), and then go to law school. Actually, surveys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... , convincing new students to join the crew team, leading FPOPs and orientation ... sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  mention the idea around campus, and it’s somewhat of a trend to change your pronouns on Facebook to “they/them” regardless of your actual gender in order ... supporting the idea quietly on their own. Anyway, I just wanted to share

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  , but traveled a lot on weekends to see friends. i spent more time with 20 ... was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into ... season. Every competing robot has to play the same game. Maybe you're ... vulnerable moments I've experienced on the team. I didn't have anything to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  to eat. For more blog entries that begin with great food recommendations, browse on over to Mitra's blog (this week: Thai food at Chili Duck). After dinner, it was over to the Boston Common Theater, Boston's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  Chad Waxman, dare to take on the physical challenge and test your ... need to brush up on those dining skills in preparation for those ... , other MIT offices, and various corporations to organize and fund this year

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  the world simply as a place to travel to on vacation. Now I see Italy as ... has a good sized airport if you want to travel on the weekends. ... In 2011, MIT Mechanical Engineering students went through MISTI to

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  away from your mistakes and weaknesses. All you need to do is reach out ... existence of outside has fled your memory. I'm going to stop writing now so ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... . Without it, I had to reckon with everything that did. I've had this on and ... 'm on year [annotation note="this number feels unreal to me, like maybe I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this ... software engineer because of it. I'm glad I get to work on my team, because ... /or volunteered to do it on their own - a particularly difficult pset, a band

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018