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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just ... ? What's 'The Evil Dead?' Xena what?" Well, actually, Ruth kind of knew who ... was in town (and she is the one of the biggest Xena fans in all recorded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we ... again. Even though a majority of the attempts were spent watching the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... end result? A HACK!! It was raised from the ceiling of Stata the night before the one-year memorial of Officer Sean Collier. It was such a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with ... and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the ... the video onto social media with a list of new nominees and a link back

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  from the semester. And I was alone. My roommate left the Saturday of finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall ... , even in the middle of the day. There wasn’t any classes, or square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP ... on campus, and scoring free swag (Woo! Free Swag!). Of course, the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall ... do with the force gauge involves measuring the strength of your bicep

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  .5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it ... office held a Thanksgiving Dinner for us! All of the MIT students were ... the end of it. The chefs. They don't understand why we like turkey so

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to be involved." I emailed the students in charge of the DEAL program

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  is only a bit of an overstatement. The ferry ride is indeed beautiful ... check out the smaller, right side of the island first so we could leave ... the top of the hill to look at Boston from. The view was absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... with a mug of tea contemplating how I've reached the point I'm at. If ... river to do.  I need to balance these activities with the two page list of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Four ... ceremony today will be one of the first steps along that road. Mr. Chang said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the ... . He helped write the band's music and played shows in front of hundreds of people in cities around the Northeast. Joey faced a tough choice in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of ... gather up hundreds of low-income, high-achieving students from all over the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... , pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I ... people off of a registry. And saying the word 'registry'. What I really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... , the future of cars, and Bill Gates at once, even if it means I just have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004