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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  good news. And that’s pretty much how, one week after starting classes ... down enough to send a coherent response and spent the next twenty ... out to be a lot more complex and thought-through than you originally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  within a day after I received news about the scholarship - and I'm happy ... Six and a half hours ago, this was me: Why? Because I, like Elizabeth, am officially done with finals!!! I left campus about 2 hours ago, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  Navy. The good news is that I now know what I'm doing after I graduate ... tell you about today? ICE. And I don't mean solid water. From the subject listing and schedule: 10.490: Integrated Chemical Engineering Presents and

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a distinction, he seemed genuinely surprised that I had even heard the news and immediately attributed his achievements to his unbelievable colleagues and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college. Nevertheless, Big Cuz Q stepped in and has been providing some advice on the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  our senior bloggers Bryan, Sam, Mitra and Jessie. They've been a huge part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss them. Thanks guys, for sharing so much of yourselves over the years and

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this semester. A very cool HASS class. It's simply called 'Rhetoric' and we study ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... thank her. She has been busy interviewing around the U.S. and even in ... saying, ‘Here’s this cool LEGO picture, and by the way, you can follow this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  former Facebook employee’s claims that Facebook news curators routinely suppressed conservative news from the social network’s “Trending Topics” module ... , and technology scholar (and Harvard Berkman Center associate, and New

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than a dorm, and I have to take the T a lot. Fiance news Adam and his ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it ... and music. My major extracurricular activities in high school were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  HUGE NEWS: MIT opens world's largest neuroscience research center ----------- European Union Speaker Panel Integration and International Policy Featuring ... :30pm Place: Room 4-163 The event will begin with light refreshments and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  car engines, photovoltaic cells and electronic devices.” (News Office ... the entire world today.” – Ralph Merkle, nanotechnology researcher and ... to Nate and his friend Alicia*), I spoke with one high school senior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  before, 295 the year before that, 267 the year before that, and 326 the ... schools. You should still put the same energy and thought you put into your ... keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This is not required nor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again ... . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... if you can still send in music or art or a response or Question 13, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... that i can bring fresh air into my room and let my cat hop onto the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  sometimes appear in media—like movies and news articles and such—and they ... event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in that there are no activities other than taking pictures, snacking, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  courses in your major) – and more pressure to be uh, mature and serious. (Also: I’ve had to accept the fact that at MIT, there’s only freshmen and ... architecture studio sometime during the day/evening and leaving somewhere between

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  Exam week starts, and before I know it I’ll be graduating. Where has the ... -traveling music and hand waving.* MIT was my top choice and applying early action ... rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006