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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for ... - designed to serve as a starting point for students with big ideas (or small ... . Their goal is to reprocess used vegetable oil from the dining halls on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  on the Admissions site. It's true that we encourage our bloggers to ... credibility. But allowing the blogs to become a full-on soapbox is a slippery ... senate. Since students have so much say as to what goes on, it's important

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad ... companies might in some cases have an obligation to experiment on their users ... little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... huge contingent of MIT students tutor, both here on campus (for our ... . We teach classes on topics of our choice to middle and high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in ... to cross the street because the sidewalk ended on the side i had been on initially. this doesn't mean that the city was made for driving

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... all worked out okay. I’m closing comments on this blog post to ... admitted students. Answers to frequently asked questions for waitlisted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  addition to working with students on the MIT campus I also attended several ... (The Summer Update Edition!) Greetings to all! Can you feel that ... 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close to 40 hours on 031 we did. This class CONSUMED our lives last semester ... pages of the comic here, but sign up for their newsletter to get the full

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out ... on 35 mm projection for the Spirited Away screening that weekend and ... brief guide to 35 mm film projection for LSC! What is 35 mm film? Two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan on admitting students

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the ... campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys! ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1. From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... the resources we wish we’d had when applying to college and deciding on ... of each session leaves time for participants to ask questions, so if

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  . Why? Because they don't really need to focus on marketing or anything ... DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse from Full House, was once the touring drummer for The Beach Boys? What

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if ... our friends in Fremont!), who came to Boston to hang out over break. On Thanksgiving day, we went to Chinatown for Thanksgiving dinner and had a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... on, but become even better - because he owes it to the mentor to do so ... worked out that way. There are just so many projects that I had to put on

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to ... . (hosed = MIT slang for being so busy that your to-do list takes up an ... because I will be spending Thursday night packing for my week long trip to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... miles to get clean water for her family. Instead, she could spend that ... on the path to starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  to be comfortable with in future years. On Tuesdays from 3:10-5:10 pm ... handle each situation. For example, when I was on the Medical team, there ... advice on what to do. We kept getting calls on our one radio about people

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009