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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  the first time flying on a plane, riding a subway, or just being away ... . We walked through Beacon Hill and Boston Common in what had to be the ... being on campus. Watching all the students work together to solve the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie ... Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering ... be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  's a lot of emphasis on being prepared for the MCAS exam, and that's probably a scenario where "being wrong for the sake of learning" is not going ... probably rooted in the same premise that it would be good to encourage more

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Simsbury, Connecticut, the final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  . B: Hey, wouldn't it be funny if this night was the last time we ever ... seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... with the assistance of special catalyst molecules. Metathesis can be ... (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  mentions of peter thiel. wouldn't be surprised if people embraced the ... whatever. if it were any earlier in the day people would probably be handing ... enjoyed the second party more than the first one, and i feel that'd be the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  can be said of the musical performance—these excellent musicians ... article can also be found in Issue 12 of The Tech (Vol. 129). Photos taken ... dark screen flashes the large bulky letters at the same time, or when it

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... . The weather at MIT has been delicious the past week or so. My friends ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  , because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna's Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston restaurant of the variety "cheap AND ... quesadillas. It today opened its fourth restaurant in Boston, in the MIT Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of ... -India Program 2011 Internship: Google India, Bangalore The project

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  coded this with the Python version of Drake, which can be used for ... Research paper The final project generally had to be a model that attempts ... the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  from Full House, was once the touring drummer for The Beach Boys? What ... film for numerous uses in the typical laboratory including the typical ... reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized

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

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  to believe: It is okay to be the weird kid in the room. You are ... When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades ... a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  . As she said, the students there can be somewhat competitive with each ... to be done. By contrast - but keeping the military analogy - here at ... -recession environment. As Levin pointed out, this was not the decision that needed to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  treasure is the pistol classes at MIT. Now you may be saying, Nat, everyone ... . Life has been... interesting the last few months and I'll blog about ... called "Hidden Treasures at MIT"(HT@MIT) that take some of the hidden

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  sixth place. Want to help the team finally be the best solar car team in the world? (Or maybe you'd be more interested in the time the team had ... . I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  poor – namely, their neighbors, who tend to be poor as well. The ... for being you. And lastly, to the slum children who smiled at me even ... gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008