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• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at just over four hours. It was awesome. Fun, intellectual, inspiring. In ... review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... into the cast iron chairs that were only bearable because they were in ... perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of a classroom project, a cool new toy, an internship with MISTI, participating in competitions like MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  .   A tree sags over torn power lines in south-central New Hampshire ... hurricane, dumped heavy, wet snow across the region, exceeding two feet in ... dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  , right in time for the creation of a new batch of competency ... something new and edgy to do in the outside-of-MIT world. I’ve enjoyed ... I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  and a new presentation, in time for class. Hell broke loose for our ... In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly-In ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  year. The room in the basement of the new building, occupied by the ... excited for the opportunity to observe FaMLE set up their rig in the new ... in the process of forming, as well. On November 19, 1884, The Tech

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... gender discrimination among its women faculty in the 1990s. Below is an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  New Jersey increased its minimum wage by 80 cents in 1992. Suppose our ... [/caption] “Aha!”, you might say. “We can see that employment in New Jersey is going ... measles vaccine example above, the time trend for New Jersey in the absence

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I'm living in Mac ... campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  New Hampshire, has some of the most beautiful foliage in the Fall ... blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT ... . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor-by-floor system based upon class rank and whether you've lived in a double or single the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  in Cambridge. As someone who loves scenic views to take pictures, the colors of fall leaves mixed in with the unique and historic buildings ... that I've come to fall in love with.  And recently, I've been trying to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  -night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of ... defined by Wikipedia: "the act of engaging in activities (such as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  coached a new generation of creative writers with Will '12 in the ancient ... , but I feel a vicarious thrill seeing the same expression reflected in the eyes of the torrent of 2015s that have descended upon campus in the

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and ... .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  article! We’ll be going back to New York in the beginning of June for more ... Glamorous moments, in the traditional sense, are fleeting at MIT ... day in lab. So you may be surprised to hear that 2 MIT students, Alia

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  the past. In honor of him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno ... call New York City home. You may know Fabolous from his songs such as "I ... 's crew G Unit. While there are always awesome concerts in Boston, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006