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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  this opportunity to talk about a few Nobel-prize-winning discoveries ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots ... synonymous with “we needed a science word to make our thing sound more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... booklets on topics ranging from sci-fi to personal memoir. I picked up a ... paper, how they storyboard, stories of what it’s like to be a queer artist

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  roommates were crammed into a room meant to be a double, a situation that ... control, and a facade of ‘togetherness’ that I felt unable to communicate ... sleep until 5 AM to run a late-night wing outing. He asked if I had eaten

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but ... ’d like to pretend that I was a hard working kid who studied a lot and did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... ), was scheduled to give a talk titled "Health System Transformation ... Health Organization.) This is appalling; we consider ourselves to be a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... photo above next to Binzel.   But why is all this important though

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... . My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of ... I'd be a huge, hypocritical, condescending jerk if I were to tell you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be ... to Blue Hills twice, once for a 5-mile, relatively-flat loop, and once ... Hampshire with friends to climb up a mountain ridge with some beautiful views

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy ... four star buffet on a broke college student’s budget. You walk in to ... went off to a meeting.   On Saturday, I got up earlier. MUCH

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... the problem and then teaches the other person. To actually solve a problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the ... [annotation note="which definitely varies from class to class! There were only a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  Roll) Awards linked to a class or department (e.g. History department ... . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... . Look at what we do for you. We almost fell prey to a demon

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... is going online and we have a week to leave. It feels like ... managed to successfully innovate a way to blow glass while wearing a mask

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  especially important to me in the context of starting MIT during a remote ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine ... theme for the current issue and puts out a call for students to submit

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... . The etymology of the word 'endure' traces to a 1382 English translation ... shibboleth. when you go to turn your rat around today, please, take a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very ... battle scenes in Lord of the Rings allow pika to run a meal plan 7 days a ... lost a finger due to some unfortunate chopping accident and ended up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... being in this major? It would really be a shame to major in something that ... I want to do, which has left me swaying quite a bit between staying in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... wearing a red dress with white polka dots to match her red (pink?) hair. She ... should care about? is there a good reason I should feel obligated to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... is a school he had heard of before coming to this country," Mr. Taylor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006