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• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... is so integral to the present and future of the world, especially the ... the importance of inclusion and diversity are relevant to society as

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  early on and once later on. I don't feel like I have enough data to make ... (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff ... back of the truck was locked, and my key was returned to the front desk

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  (and maybe a little text here and there) So pretty much July 4th was ... something I should experience at least once, and while I probably did enjoy it ... other humorous conversations, me and my friends decided to discuss baby

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill ... happened to pick up this book from a store shelf and leaf through it, I ... , calling to the surface a sense of pacing and beauty—on the sentence level

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... that time when I was introduced to Dante Alighieri and his law of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  with the two ceremonies I went to, I was moving all over MIT and Boston ... over. Then, I had to pack up everything that was left in my room, and I ... , and then we went off to our separate gates — she was taking Delta, and I

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

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  curriculum filled with theater, drawing, and jazz would help him to focus on ... of course, he should do it. And then I started to think about the kids I get to know through their applications and their blog posts, and who

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  to create their own and now I feel even more inspired to create new ... creating new things inspires others to create new things themselves, like MIT ... functioning prototypes ready to receive funding for mass production and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... to mention in music composition, and in ethnomusicology? So I asked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  music's pretty rad. Don't worry. You kind of talk to D and W? Not so much ... killed herself." My mom found out about this and decided to switch schools ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  office, going to info sessions, and wading through the internet’s many ... to see that humor is valued as much as other "typical" applicant ... , “helps keep us humble and not take ourselves too seriously, or to feel too

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  , and I, uh, saw an ostrich. Well, uh, I also tried to solve the energy ... I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does ... Halloween, and best of luck to those of you applying EA tomorrow. =)  

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  people go through rough times and directing students to the proper resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need ... lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember ... to mind is that of an exhaust pipe, sputtering and spewing smoke into ... awash with students bustling to and fro. floorpi feels like it’s a little

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  reflect on the transition back to MIT from a place where I have lived and ... seen, you have to allow it.  You have to invite people in, and it ... easy to say that some people and/or places just don’t get me, but harder

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  , he likes to set things on fire, and he once hooked a rather powerful ... I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to ... in time to continue on my merry thermodynamical way. And finally, Ruth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... does the average MIT student have to watch TV?" Throughout my first two ... performance shows and The Amazing Race, every week, no matter what I had to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006