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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... of the MIT Symphony Orchestra or Concert Choir. Fun fact: Kresge is a perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  Kevin C. '17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad ... the MIT Formula SAE team as an undergrad. What follows is a post Kevin ... friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Lou Guenier, Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  Reviews: “Eco-chic.” -a freshman critic from Maseeh “The prizes ... .” -a sophomore on the Trashion committee “It was all trash! Beautiful ... the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... obligated to continue. Sometimes I feel like I’m slowly devolving into a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I ... wasn’t sure whether to declare a double major or settle with a minor ... field anyway, so why not start early with a relevant degree? MIT did not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . Sorry guys. Hope you didn't have your heart set on a real, live, poetic ode. As a freshman, I would, on occasion, hear people talking about the MIT Tunnels. Back then, it was tunnels with a capital "T" because to my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  on a rather painful hike in the snow. This camping trip was a little ... way to the cabin to grab some food. There was a beautiful view on the ... anything other than the beautiful sunset, a ton of stars and the Milky Way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a ... great...but it's good that I tried really hard. This part was not a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... these national scholars and competition people and I'm just a guy from ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... teaching creativity-building educational modules at a youth shelter in Phnom

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... dad’s night job as a taxi driver, combined with my parents’ negligible

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  that send a chill up your nerves. © Nicholas Wiltsie G (MIT ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor ... sinews that make us human. “What is this ‘death’? Is it a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and engineering. FIRST works something like this: every year, in January, a star ... alliances of three robots each compete against each other on a small, enclosed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  , all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We ... enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a ... addition we've enlisted the help of a great group of current students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... was a colossal disaster (despite me only sleeping around 4 hours in the ... requires 5.12 as a prereq but I'm doing them concurrently. Ironically, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  you? Why should you only know a little? The solution was a series of ... learn a little bit more about life at MIT. MIT's blogs have started to revolutionize the way colleges advertise. MIT is no longer a photoshopped ad, it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... classes come psets so...that's a wash. On other hand, I am trading Spanish weather for New England weather, and leaving behind a great experience

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008