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• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opportunity to collaborate in ways that promise progress on some of the ... opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... the one that was assigned to you at birth.) So we know highschool can ... express myself to the world. During undergrad and even into grad school here

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to laziness and inertia and pick/stay based on stupid criteria. The ... to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  . If I'd be ostracized for being "weak". But the people I reached out to ... semester of my junior year, the Class of 2024 got to go on the freshman ... 't breathe. -- On the way to Monterey, I made this playlist of songs that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  way down the corridor to reach my suite. It's apparent that the path I take helps me interact with more people; I pass four suites on the way to ... everyone on your hall, it's harder to initiate new conversations. On the flip

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  and found a bench to sit on. The number of spelling errors significantly ... . Anyway, I reached the USS Constitution, and I've already been to the museum ... going to throw up. But I didn't, and I reached the top! I took a picture

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  : I would like to not drop a class, and the best way for me to reach ... My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it ... those feelings to the side, but now that spring classes have started, it

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  with it. I found the postcard itself in a box on the second floor of ... knew I had to have one on my wall. This was like a second cover for one ... by there on my trip to AGU (see #5). From the same set as 13, another

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  former MIT students on the tube. This month, PBS is having competition ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... about her career as an astronomer. Other contributors to the book include

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to ... , Philosophy or "Outside the Box." To apply, you must submit the Preliminary ... national experts in the field. Daniel's work, titled "Two Papers on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  holes on all sides (including the bottom!!) and little feet to elevate the ... ’ve resigned ourselves to a dirty floor. The main problem is that I love lying on ... to lie on the ground again, I’ll take it :D 4/5 stars  

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  directives to developers on what work they should do or the positions they ... , to economics, to privacy, to distributed systems, to take on this important new area of research. The effort will reach across the MIT campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... Albans City in Vermont but, early on the way we then decided to go to ... from glaring to dark in a second, with the last glimpse of the Sun

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  !). ------------------------------------- abstract wrote, "ummm... to break the long debate on percentages, do you know ... to me, and I got only 710 on the SAT I Math and 700 on the SAT II Math ... the last things on my mind. To top this off, my mother said I couldn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  single cent on the plane ticket. On the plane, I sat next to a Navy pilot ... , and flew back to Boston. On the plane, I sat next to an entrepreneur who ... energy crisis, you win. The path to getting respect is: work really hard on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to ... we kept stopping on the way to reflect on the beautiful view of Japan ... be left on the ground to melt into Fuji's rocks forever. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  friend on the way to classes, and the perfect amount of time to let the ... year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the ... slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  phases: Flying from Boston to London Taking the train from London to Bristol Taking an Uber from the station to the flat I’m staying in (I could’ve taken the bus, but I didn’t want to drag my luggage all over the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  amphibians on the island. Another option is to fight fungus with bacteria. Some ... of the Convention on Biological Diversity, world leaders committed to ... , estimates that without our efforts to mitigate our effects on the environment

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013