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• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  know I can only be deeply invested in so many communities, and that I ... with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  (and trying to decide if I can make the hurdle over the guy sleeping in ... the beginning of the rest of your life. I know that when I sent in my ... Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  expletives (that I can't post on the blogs) with my dad. I earnestly hope that ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the ... know much about what I'm supposed to do there. I arrive in Heathrow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  in Fall 2007. It certainly showed me how much I liked physics, though ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... original. My second UROP I started in Summer 2006, and it was undeniably the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... down, we were back at the hole-in-the-wall bookstore; I recognized the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  learning how to pronounce German consonants from an mp3 file. Now I can ... First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... term; I've always loved writing music and I can usually pick up theory

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  realized just how thoroughly this hack was done. I'm sure there's at least ... In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  double majoring in Nuclear Engineering (Course 22) and Biology (Course 7) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... both of his passions. Jugal found his UROP by searching the websites of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  a lot. That's why I'm impressed how the MIT Gala board was able to ... modeling for Infinite in the past. I thought it would be pretty casual, so I ... with the fashion world, I didn't realize how much work goes into walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen ... is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs ... period, but I strongly suggest you submit your application well in advance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students ... was an amazing part of the Terrascope experience. I never realized how ... things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... in admissions (‘twas the season) and doing whatever my heart desired. I ... that occurred, as everyone in WILG seemed to start a project over IAP (I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  similar in these ways but I hardly ever find anyone that I can look up to ... how sci-fi can impact me and my worldview. I attribute passing many AP ... SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at ... Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  My hope is that in the next p-set and class-filled 48 hours, I eat ... joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... drained. I needed to re-discover why I needed to be at MIT in the first

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... involved in obscure programs) can identify their major in one number of one ... in Roman numerals, as far as I know....oh, the intricacies of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... better food. In 2000 I left JPL to try out consulting, teaching and ... I "really believed" in evolution. I had been complaining about this

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is ... sister. This cat has no idea how much I missed her. Photo of Mansaf ... already--3,974,400 seconds--and here I am, back in the States, ready to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  after graduation)—and yes, I've witnessed these responses in the wild ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... jampacked Macklemore spring concert Thinking I'm going to do pretty well in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016