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• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  lengths of everything had to be to make it look like the ones I had seen ... mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of ... future, and so much that I didn't see coming in the past and will never be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  didn’t think I would be able to meet the initial deadline we had set. I ... Marvel UROP. I will be honest and say that the brunt of the writing ... went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  , and sometimes those things happen to be on fire. I'm not the best ... Minesweeper. The recurring theme of all my classes seems to be intention, and ... (though the editing wasn't fantastic) and it's been really nice to be able

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant ... , at MIT and Cambridge." I think the best way to illustrate the ... 5 times. Hit the snooze button one more time after deciding to skip

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... cafe won't be there once we return back to campus.  The chapel  My ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006 Winter Olympics. But these athletic games are not the only highly ... international olympiads, and not just for the US but also international students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  One of my favorite books ever is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by ... 's not what it's about. It's about the oxymoron of the 21st century ... White House. It doesn't matter if you didn't want the same guy to win- it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  , you may be wondering, dear reader, why I'm pontificating about the joys of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  can do anything else. Maybe that’s why I choose to go into the office ... steps into the kitchen to take a break. Was it a late lunch? An early ... was something of a blessing. It offered the opportunity to escape the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the ... books were there, but they were not yet at the level that I have come to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  -dollar bills and half dollars, then set out to explore some of the town. Not a ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  being said about you. Your essays are the only time that you get to speak ... : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... ! Being There (Kosinski), The Robber Bride (Atwood), Man Child in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  everyone was posting about first coming/coming back to college, and all the ... home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real ... the case of family, that care is unconditional. I definitely have not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  causes the organic matter to be carbonized instead of burning away ... solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... ; eventually, we will pull it out and have a nice column of space for the fire

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  lecture. I've found the textbook to be most helpful and the notes more as a ... (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as ... the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  companies and products that are directly relevant to the college search ... their mobile media tours to explore the Stata Center. I enjoyed talking ... . It's always great to see the layers peel back when you meet people here

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  this depression? the weather’s beginning to be nice enough to take ... hopefully, the fall would be normal. god, what i’d give for everything to ... ;   i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn ... to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on its opening night. Thanks to the smooth-as-cookie-dough planning of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005