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• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad ... freshman, because there's a lot of downtime, so I was pretty much stuck at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least ... appreciate the breadth of MIT offerings for athletes and beyond. The main ... ropes and trapeze—I made it up and out! At the end of the day, the group

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... Sierra Nevadas," he replied, with sort of a snooty glance at the stewardess ... alumnae-turned-astronomers at various institutions. I e-mailed all of them

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being surprised at what this entry was about and where it came from. Er.. let ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  'd encounter "only at MIT."  To do that, we did about a year of research ... offering in-person information sessions and tours at this time. We hope to do ... 3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  best (and I think succeeded at) renormalizing my expectations of grades ... social, and partly a function of being a nerd at a nerd school surrounded ... other MIT students."]this degree[/annotation]. I think some of it comes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , when they offer me tomato salad at dinner, they have no idea that I ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the video conferencing setup, with two of us at MIT, two of us at ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  effect and at other times offer a range of harmony, dissonance, and melody ... will be viewable online at some point, and there are pictures of most of ... Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• 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…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www ... entrepreneurial path. He was present at the creation of Thinking Machines, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... . a lot of people at mit walk with their hands in their pockets, either ... , since most buildings at mit and in the rest of the world have fairly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  last rule helps break out of that stress. Every weekend, I take at least ... my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim ... . Two weeks later, I was at my first ever ultimate frisbee tournament. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... joke that maybe still exists at MIT: "Our tests are like, 'The density of ... -threatening hemorrhage in a matter of minutes at delivery (which is why it was once known

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  financial aid at Connecticut College. "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I ... students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  french fries. The brothers of Theta Xi saw our excitement and offered to ... 2.007 (robot-building) lab at the recommendation of a dedicated ... differential. That's a level of nerdiness frowned upon even at CPW. After Meet

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... people nerding out about all sorts of topics. It starts at CPW when you ... ’s why I’ve called at least half of my professors by their first names, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  summer roommate from Bombay) enjoy a sampler of Belgian beers at one of the ... 't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels ... the Thalys website for "summer offers"--you could get fast connections

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... after their success at the Battle of Vimy, and the 22e was established as ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  saturday night at the house of some family friends, I catch a glimpse of the ... Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a ... field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008