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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  concentration at MIT in education through this set of classes. I encourage you to check it out, and to read about some of the cool stuff they're doing in ... I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... also "literal" in terms of their career choices. People who want to cook

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of ... ,46005,46006,46016,45983,46056" caption="the baby bloggers" /] From left to right: Ankita D. ’23 of New

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  proposal of the Biological Engineering Division to offer an S.B. program that will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering. The Faculty recommends to the Corporation the designation of a new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... ." Worst of all, Mills is the type of student who tends to overvalue or ... evaluates his scores based on comparisons of his scores as related to the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... was called - as you might be able to guess from the title of this entry ... . #2 - This is why I chose to go to MIT. (Well, one of the reasons.) #17

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend ... example: "I was going to go to that convention with my friend, but a lot of ... I don't have a pair of cat ears to wear." See? Isn't that so much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and we're trying our hardest to get through the thousands of applications

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  As promised, I come bearing more pictures, Some of these are courtesy of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of ... . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex ... me a lot of the Stata Center, with its bright colors, vibrant dining

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... Tube videos. Monday, we crowded in Stud5 to study. After hours of studying, we ... realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  burning of the flame itself that spoke to Shadow in the dark place under the ... ...but dreams burn bright. To me, this is a decent description of how I see MIT ... 's progressed to the point where people send in applications, and dozens of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... three-part gory murder mystery to depictions of animal’s private lives ... clicking the “watch” button, but wanted to know the source of this wondrous

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... the peaks of the edges have to be wider than the valleys, so that the ... -land without anything to tether me down to things that actually exist. So to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  kind of creepy. The bar corresponding to what's currently going on with ... point of this is that...well, I'm hosed. So I'm going to stop writing this blog entry and get back to one of my two 20 page term papers. I will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008