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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... pretty much the same thing. But in the second example, "going to" isn't an ... audience. But most of the time, he stuck to the topic, which thoroughly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... . I'm going to try to semi-flow this debate, keeping you updated on all ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  answer the question within the first few seconds, and to gauge whether the ... what do I want to do, really? On the Friday of the first week of class ... wanted to do an internship over the summer. I don’t know what, exactly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  months, it felt really cool to have the tools to understand and analyze key ... group in the Media Lab, this class centered on computational and new media ... the time. I got to try out new frameworks like p5.js and paper.js and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Last night, MIT Aero/Astro professor Missy Cummings was the guest on ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... any more. Many exams will be scheduled close together, sometimes on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  came to MIT being under the impression—based on how intensely the quirky ... There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... the problem and then teaches the other person. To actually solve a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  metapuzzle is a puzzle based on combining the answers to other puzzles.) This ... to read the alt-text on the images; it provides a significant but ... to be admitted to the second half of the puzzle was an idea of loopy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the ... , I start the year planning to participate, but those plans go haywire ... snowball of second-guessing my answers. In most humanities classes, on topics

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... -is-not-good-at-life-themed posts in the archives, what's another post on the pile? Here are some ... to confidently announce to the entire class that the new girl ‘talks

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful ... come out with us to Consume the Meat. "This would be my second time ... on as if nothing happened. We ended up wandering over to the pet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of my summer vacation. DID YOU KNOW? Portland, ME was once home to the ... , sweetbread). As we wandered around mostly haphazardly, I got to see the famous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  sketchbooks, and so I knew I wanted those to be on a desk, and the gallery is ... because it was like the day before, and so I Googled “How to Name your ... people comment on the name at all? Holly: A couple people sent me photos

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of ... that you are feeling right now. As you get through the day, I'd like to remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  afternoons. Then the next two weeks will be for us to work on our website, with ... projected an image on it. It would again take a day to see the final results ... from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  as i've previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking ... 've realized the importance of ~ self-care ~. indeed, sometimes, you have to put ... even though the period where my relationships were going to shit sucked

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  . Arts on the MIT campus are rooted in experimentation, risk taking, and ... at MIT, you don't have to major or minor in the arts to be fully ... organizes the Student Lending Art Program, which loans real works of arts to
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006