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• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  . Huang, Newark [Delaware], is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of ... psychology and political science. At MIT, she founded the MIT branch of Camp ... Carolina], is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Since his arrival at MIT ... . Before assuming the presidency of MIT, she was Provost at Yale University ... research and to pioneer crucial advances at the burgeoning intersection of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time ... friends, instead of telling their story, drink a cup of soy milk at the ... fewer windows are illuminated at night, until only a handful of weary

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  it is on the forefront of the ed tech movement. As early as 2001, at ... your team solve at the Festival of Learning? Share your ideas in the ... award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way to Agawam. After a pit stop at Dunkin' Donuts (coming to a W20 near

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 ... I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  Cambridge to buy an MIT t-shirt -- the power of the Internet! Yes, over at ... It's May 1! Welcome to the MIT Class of 2010! If you have sent back ... comments. We're excited to have you as a member of the class! We've spent the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  the circle of life producing an incredibly nerdy musical at math camp ... acceptable. Here at MIT, I learn the mysterious words and ways of computers ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick ... . Professors Xavier Gabaix of the Economics department at MIT and Augustin Landier of the Stern School of Business at New York University went beyond

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7 ... exams before Monday morning; this led to some frantic texting of friends to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  -warping influence of continued sleep deprivation, my initial 5 days at MIT were about ... -playing robots at the Boston Museum of Science. My team's robots were significantly ... point where a 2-foot-by-4-foot plastic bin at the sidelines of the arena

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at ... Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  my brain during the last two weeks, mostly typed at within 4 minutes of ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric ... and diverse ecology of numerical life forms. to look at an integral and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery ... capable of speeding along four-lane traffic at 35 mph. We're in the middle ... method of not-going-at-25-mph-anymore requires performance of “the s

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  talked of making a "left turn at Albuquerque") (No sign of the High School ... ). Apparently the weather was pretty crazy today ("the sky was like at the end of ... ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  . we're not getting paid for any of this. we just like it. at times, it ... swell. but when i look at this list of things that i love about promys, i ... preparing now. kinda scary. i was also asked why i was at promys if a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021