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• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  at the beginning of the show that there was an “escaped convict” on the ... have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these ... have the dangerous dual combination of both being full of awesome project

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  weeks in Beijing, starting on the 29th of May, as an intern for the ... . The second day on the job, I visited the Port of Albany, where I ... A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  feeling of excitement and accomplishment that propels you on to the next day ... everybody likes happy, right? This weekend is parents weekend, so instead of just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  featured on the cover of Wired magazine. I guess that advising a film critic on the scientific plausibility of a Steven Spielberg movie isn't quite as prestigious as creating a new form of matter or bioengineering human

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to ... pleased to discover the diversity of the student body on many different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief ... ideas down on the comments! I'm always looking for new things to explore ... 's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  , while I was on the road, there were a number of really interesting ... preperations, and on top of ALL of THAT, you are applying to college. Whewww ... of pictures, smile, and know that your future will open a whole new set

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  TIIIINY amounts of force on TIIIINY objects, and measure the effects. For ... that there are new factors informing my class choices: 1) I only have ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of ... something productive at work. As fun as being in a new place, surviving on ... For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... still have a couple of friends in it, and most of the work will be on an ... space mission concept that we’ll work on. Regardless of how the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  day spa and salon on Newbury Street. The priciness of Newbury Street ... sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  spaces on campus rather than right outside our room doors. REX was one of ... 't even heard of our dorm. the next hurdle was event planning. i decided on ... support me, lots of new friends, and BC's reopening to look forward to, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... . Almost every summer, my sister and I tackle a new ropes course. Although I have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people ... "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Hopkins requested an additional 200 square feet of office space for her new research project on the development of zebrafish. Although her request was ... data on the issues discussed. The Study on the Status of Women Faculty

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... unused bottle of sunblock. Counter - I saved money on sunblock and spent ... rather than the quick jolt of pain Newton felt when an apple felt on his

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... Boston. Soon enough, of course, we found ourselves actually back on campus ... ,105890" caption="missing the normal version of WNRS which is currently on loan

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  of the images for a better view!][/caption]Why settle on a bicycle? Why ... break and become friends with the next best pair of limbs on your body ... nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles, San ... Hello, MIT Class of 2015! Here are some things that admitted students ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  Raiye and I on a vast array of adventures across the United States and ... . The winter break of 4th grade, my dad—who had just got a new job as a ... the sun shone on the greenery of the Yard. Students and tourists alike

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025