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• 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. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  citizens? You can do that online even if you’re six years old. How is ... Professor Eileen Scanlon from The Open University, told us how in another ... United Kingdom. Citizens inspired by OpenScience and iSpot can pursue their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• 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 / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... ). In this picture, you can see that Team 97 has successfully navigated up ... doesn't do so hot in the actual competition, you can still get some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... five things that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) eat in the Glass Lab ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... welcome in comments or email. If you suggest something I really like, I may ... : "how are enrolled students accomodated?I mean are they assigned rooms

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  you try it. I can't say how many things I would have missed out on if I ... of the year, so please have fun. And lots. Thanks :^) That's all I can ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random ... (literally) in October 2020. I am super excited for this, but the first lecture

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  (e.g. how many, when, how) that I can provide, but I'll update more when I can. In the meantime, admissions questions are always welcome here ... as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  before. In roughly 5 degrees weather, I headed to 1st Avenue, actually a ... had made in my life thus far. Once there, I pulled out my little 360 VR ... . I forgot to think of whether this felt “aesthetic” to me and vibed in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the ... aren't the newest thing around but I've never seen one in person before ... data reveals how people move about inside a building and can potentially

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  ! You can get connected with S^3 easily during their daily walk-in hours ... important assignment is due. I didn't realize how invaluable an after-hours resource can be until I accidentally studied for the wrong final exam last

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... opportunities in classes and in clubs. I am taking SP.747-Creative Imaging, a ... semester's worth of film, but also access to three printers where I can print

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already ... pretty excited because I can now write the date as "2-0-0-0" rather than "1

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how ... scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... . Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015