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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... was still a four-day weekend."]extra[/annotation] two days of break. I ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  stepped on the MIT campus? A. I don't remember 1983! But for 1992 I ... talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan ... , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  breast cancer, or maybe it's because I’m reading this great Pulitzer Prize winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... cancer from a truly innovative approach. But like all things at MIT, what

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  firehouse across the street) and a call from our team captain saying that the ... sunny as it is, this never happened much. There were a few memorable days throughout my school career, but we could go years without one. I’m not sure

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• 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 ... Kesem, a student-run and free camp for the children of cancer patients ... Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  research. Here's a few of the nanotech labs I'm aware of: The Laboratory for ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... thesis advisor? Professor James Poterba. Now that he's a best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  2005 issue! MURJ is a student-run journal that publishes articles about ... Therapy? A Cardiac Risk Assessment of Hormone as Medication (by Dejah Judelson) *Development Engineering: Are Engineers Making a Difference in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  don't write travel brochures.) After a brief eternity of staring at ... physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... , and learned a lot more about current research, global problems, and ... to not only ways I can cause change on a large scale, but also within

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist ... in cooking, laundry, etc. I am having a great stay in South Asia, and I ... environment at TIFR was very professional yet warm. I learned a great deal from

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  beat, and a high-pitched beep every two seconds. My sheets were warm and ... and the sun’s rays streaked through a break in the clouds as if the earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  we couldn't have asked for a better location." The "Deliver!" station ... About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... place at the same time. Wow. If you haven't seen the flashmob video yet

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during ... I could have handled things. Senior year is a rough one. With a full workload, afterschool clubs, and varsity sports, the amount that is on a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... don't talk to my old roommates a lot. when i enter McCormick, i still

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  's website. I didn't feel like sifting through the actual dataset for a minimax ... .5940 (TinyML) lecture: the class was holding a competition, with AI development ... was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  researchers affiliated with CMS/W, we have: T.L. Taylor, a qualitative ... that evident interest. T.L. was teaching a course on the sociocultural ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  ('14), a political science major and a worker at MIT's Rainbow Lounge ... , trying to remember experiences from CPW. There was a lot of information ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011