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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and ... development at MIT: D-Lab. D-Lab is actually a trio of one-semester classes; the ... When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... like chemistry stupid (which, unfortunately, happens very often at mit ... mean is that these are problems many of my friends struggle deeply with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  deprived of a college experience that I want to at least maintain my ... here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  I. Spent. AT LEAST 15 HOURS ON THIS GODDAMN CODE. Endless stretches ... . Spot. It made no sense, none at all. Virtual office hours? I’ve literally never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• 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 ... it:     At the time, I actually didn’t know that there was a major difference since my CPW: THE EVENTS DIDN’T GO PAST 2 AM. At

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  look at the new app (yes, I know, many of you already have) we really ... If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  Christopher Salon is definitely at the east end of Newbury Street. (I'm so ritzy ... sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  of classes at MIT, and breathed out a huge sigh of relief. Saturday ... finished coloring my last doodle at 3 a.m. and felt this sense of peace ... view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of ... Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... about this rencomm and what their mandate would be. at the turn of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  watch a video of me speaking at the most recent Maker Faire in New York ... This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  whole lot of food: Teamwork at its finest! April browns the meat, Rick ... some pictures too. As Sam mentioned, our floor, Conner 2, goes kind of ... ...I probably slept instead. I'm not much of a baker, anyway. There was plenty of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  On July 6, the world eagerly watched as London was named the host of ... 're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006 ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  lattice. visually, think a carbon atom placed at every intersection of ... parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of ... to have to take off at least one day of classes. I also have to finish

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Program"]UROP[/annotation] with the Tangible Media Group (TMG) at the MIT ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019