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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  . They say never meet your heroes, but I am here to tell you that Woodie is ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  sledgehammer on his bare toes while standing on one foot, and we all stopped to ... tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  was early, I still wasn’t able to get a seat to the standing ... across the lobby to the Thomas Tull Concert Hall to check in on the MIT ... in the process of forming, as well. On November 19, 1884, The Tech

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for next week. 2:45 p.m. It’s hard to tell whether I’m making progress on ... -house groceries to make themselves breakfast and lunch. So we get a lot of groceries

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to ... waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VAlYwWWb7kMKZL904QOLv?si=KqyWGhCITIKEXmsToGnK5w https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  or how much they were on. Last year I stopped watching both shows ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  negative impact on your chances of admission. ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit card when you submit your application. We understand that paying college
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT ... . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... on TV, part of the barge actually went up in flames. Remember, you saw

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time ... of knowing things was fairly simple. I either knew how to solve a ... , but I might have to search the manual for how to use the tool. I suppose

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  finally roll around came close to how it felt to wait for admissions ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  specifically. But it's college and they say this is when you're supposed to ... to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  hang out/catch up 9:45 pm – ran home to get laptop and headed to campus ...   One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... would I see, where would i go, etc. I figured that people would want to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  how to eat better when you have to cook for yourself, but actually ... ://web.mit.edu/hillel/www/latke-hamentashen-debate.html Option 2: Tired of Ramen for dinner? Wish you could do something to make your nightly pasta taste better? Well, tomorrow is your lucky day! Julie

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... the result. Very popular strategy on 6.042 exams. Known to result in ... : An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  18.701 to 701, I keep thinking you’re talking about biology ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to ... away you are from a radio station, the more your signal-to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005