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• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  math teachers, you should consider signing up; if you're a student or a ... find your country's organizational information here. In 2014, almost a ... Computing Challenge. It's a free quiz that requires no studying or preparation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I ... Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... . AWESOME. Let me back up a bit. See, back before dubsmash and the Doge meme

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... to have more freedom and fewer social pressures. It's a great time to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We ... camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything else) amazingly well, which probably isn’t surprising. A sizable number

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do ... pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a ... students, and everyone else who is a part of our community and more. And so

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  graduates Benjamin Harvatine '12 and Seth Berg '14 who recently built a ... , Ben Harvatine '12 got a concussion that went undetected. He continued practicing until he suddenly felt a dizziness come over him that rendered him

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  processor. Let's call it a "Time Experiment" and pretend we know what we're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel like writing prose right now Sitting in a Chair (A poem about sitting

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  stress from midterms somehow, right? (I’m a little bit sad that no ... he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch ... , to dress in cosplay and geek out with other fans, to go to a city where

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy ... (a friend Matt O. on the other hand would swear by their chicken and broccoli). Teriyaki house is a combination Chinese/Japanese/Sushi/Bubble Tea

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  pulled an all-nighter finishing three psets." They say you can tell a lot about a culture from its language.  And while Inuits might not really have 200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office ... !), and they document a lot of their work through pictures and blog posts

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... around a central theme, like flight, or pictures, and once even The Sound of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  generally alarming everyone within a half-mile radius, I promptly posted a lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple ... him a happy birthday because he is basically the greatest kid ever and ... . I love you and miss you a poop-ton, Ryan!

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... like a snotty teenager, not having family dinner time was one of the ... a GIANT BABY.). Lucky for me, I have a different sort of family with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a ... ) does a pretty thorough job technically documenting the project, but you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  I wanted to post a quick update for our transfer applicants. We will be releasing decisions for transfer students next Wednesday, 12 ... admitting a small number of highly qualified applicants at a rate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011