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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  start to hear gasps and delighted laughter.  But Bad Apple is just a ... , a perfect place to admire Tetris from. The Dot never did reopen ... software, which included heat sinks to prevent modules from overheating and a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan ... list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... -year students to request a gap year up until this past Monday. When those results

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... 180. The interviews, the formalities, the waiting in line to talk to a ... the people had the power to enact change. A lot of the time, it doesn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  spurred a faculty task force that produced a set of recommendations to ... Education at MIT, sent a letter to the ROTC community regarding the recent ... will seek ways to ensure that every MIT student interested in ROTC has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years ... ’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are ... getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... motivated, especially without a goal to aim towards after undergrad. No matter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... ... lamb, shrimp, all raw... you cook it yourself on a skewer in a marinade

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post ... staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... a poster that said this food truck along with one giving out 'gourmet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• 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 has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a ... throw a wild party, where she will be able to embarrass him in front of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... to prove to yourself. Don't do it. If you want to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico, funded by MISTI. I spent the summer pretending to be a grad student

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of ... Series Trophy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state ... state shark biologists). He was talking about having to rescue a shark

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  likely to infuriate or simply leave a scientist nonplussed. And nothing, of ... 't expect to hear any names here. "It's probably always a stupid question ... University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  dress shirt, tie, slacks, and a coat to class. But that's certainly not ... can send in a picture of your invention, the place to send it would be ... takes place in a mirror, then who knows. Ceiling Cat will have to sort it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008