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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make ... ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was ... have no idea what this means to me." And, she didn't. It was true. To ... comfortable. I began to understand it was possible for me to find niches where

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... . Lesson learned. It's actually okay to do things for fun, guys. I still ... identity. In addition, I want to study the roles writing can play outside of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  mean it. And it is awesome. 4. Vision There was too much to see to really ... pattern from this kaleidoscope, and had to report to no one to do it. I ... punning) to me. It was just this feeling that everyone there is bright

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank ... . Lander (who was my Introductory Biology teacher; you can also choose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... devastating to me.  This schedule isn't easy, but it should be so much more

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize ... 't allowed to take photos of most of the things we saw. So I'll take it from ... rolls in in February, and I think we'll be ready to take it on--as a class

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can ... ----------------------------- 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. 2. I can say the alphabet backwards faster than I can say it forwards. 3. I have

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story about struggling with sacrificing self-care to prioritize academics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo1jMdwIVoQ You can read the transcript

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  . I can defiently call this first year at MIT a success. In regards to ... another week of nothing to do, so I better get to it! Next weekend starts ... Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... spoke with James Deng after he got back to the room. It’s only just ... to life, of exploring the roads she intends to explore. But I can tell

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  , wasn't it?:P When President Reif came up to speak, I'm sure more than half of us knew what to expect. After all, it must be had to shake things ... Kullman told the Class of 2014 to use the elements of "heat, light, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  had little to no interest in joining a frat here at MIT. It was a ... ) meant something vastly, vastly different than it seems to mean for the ... —he didn't think rushing was for him. To us, it felt like frats represented

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  , white walls, my roommate and I have taken it upon ourselves to overhaul ... exhibition is still a great place to wander through. It's a pretty eclectic ... ).   We haven’t quite gotten around to hanging it up yet (it’s been a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  far away, and all of us so distant from each other. It hurt to see an airport like this, to hear its haunting quiet. And yet, being in JFK, like old times – it was mundane in the best way. I said goodbye to my parents

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  and 17. To win the P3, a project had to demonstrate how it would ... seven winners this year. MIT's project, titled "Encouraging Toxic Use ... here Great job to Kendra, who "developed much of the project content

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  super satisfying to fold once you figure out how it works. Five ... favourite examples of modular origami because it’s both fun to assemble and ... – it’s possible to the spikes to stick outward! (I had a few sticky

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly ... either yet, though i would sorely like to. [annotation note="and when it ... lack of wind. it was nice to be outside after only having existed in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  quite reasonable time to wake up - and, really, it wasn't that bad. But compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  quite honestly said no (actually, I used to make fun of cheerleaders ... 've done probably 98% of the technical work on it, and am largely free to ... didn't really do it intentionally, so to speak -- just sat down in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006