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• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  (for his cars), a heliport (for his two helicopters). In addition to a ... applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After ... in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  lined up a month into senior year, almost a year in advance. For the ... As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity ... 's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... intermediate stops along the way (in Mass., New Hampshire, and Maine). The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... prepared for the last three of those in just two hellish weeks of cramming ... all the stuff I did wrong. We used to sit in Panera Bread for hours and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the ... ="alignnone" width="300"] we holed up in the media lab for the night, which doesn ... for high school races in Arizona."]gunshot,[/annotation] we were off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  involve some more stuff, but don’t worry about that for now."]in a vacuum ... in terms of magnetic flux flow instead of current/voltage. For example ... , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that ... It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally, in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades ... me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really far away from home for a bit. One afternoon that summer, while about

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

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  just two weeks of living here, I’ve painted my room for the first time in ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... trends reveal an uptick in searches for Blahaj starting from early 2020 ... + people to explore their identities, especially for those living in homes or

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... if you live in a city for 18 months. Anyway, moving out ended up taking ... upwards of 400 points in their 25-minute games (we played for longer than

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

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  for the three million Sudanese civilians who now live in refugee camps ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  , vocab word of the day). Now for the part of the blog in which I get more ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people could tune in. Below is the email from President Reif describing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  wasn't possible for me to get an A in this class, so I left it on PNR to ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  would be a great place for college all the way back in eighth grade when I ... for continuously pushing me in the right direction.   The lab ... For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  , rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... , all Stanford students. There are no clouds in the sky. Ever. The statues of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  , here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... Sister, Sister Movies: Alex Haley’s ROOTS For Colored Girls Booty Call ... Company One Troupe (live at the Boston Center for the Arts) Performances

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Chinese bakery and suddenly felt homesick, not for my own home in St. Louis ... imposingly Colonial front side of Quincy Market. I considered stopping in for ... and got one for free, inexplicably. Will is a logical person who sits in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009