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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on ... from Panama. The Altar Boyz played at the Colonial Theatre to a very ... I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  place. "There Is No Formula" Trying to define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a formula. It's like trying to ... who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I ... during a stressful semester. We’re all figuring out how to project a ... —“OMG guys, cut it out!”—he’s going to be conspicuously absent for a period of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  on a gift, which was a project we were encouraged to design and create ... second iteration of the program. Admittedly, I didn’t go to a lot of the ... how to use a machine, and they also put in the underappreciated work of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  between all of that, we ate fresh pies, took a trip to Cape May, and did a ... her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic ... college when despite my best efforts I was just too busy to keep a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in ... resolution to go to a new bar and meet people every Wednesday evening, which we ... because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... difficult for me to pinpoint what i got out of the program - i learned a bit ... developer because i worked on a relatively familiar stack. if i had to put it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... two flights of stairs (grade five) to trying to sit back on a chair ... impressionable moments come from other sources, and I want to share a few of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three ... in a tissue and is a rare occurrence that sometimes has to be ... heel was probably a bruise because I could rotate my foot with little to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  presentation. And many go on to become real products, like the Avive AED Defibrillator, which started as a 2.009 project and now is spreading to campuses ... they came up with! 8:52 -- Back to Kayode...with a short word from Janet

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  several reasons, such as: I was too busy with classes to spend a day at ... ”."]RMV[/annotation] dealing with the paperwork. Massachusetts requires you to use a friend ... school to use their car for the road test. A US license (with REAL ID) also

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  environment. ESD.054 is more of a theoretical approach to leadership for which ... electromagnetic fields. There seems to be a resurgence of differential equations in ... brought in a tank of fluorescent fish, which I thought was a great way to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a ... need to be a music major for this to be considered (most people who ... most music classes or to be a part of the music program. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look ... there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute-to ... right), or infuriating but fine (bottom left). You can't force a system to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... slides, etc) online for people to get a similar educational experience as ... to find a cure for cancer. MIT's motto is "Mens et Manus," Mind and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  hack of 2013! A great way to start, after last year's concluding one on ... Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  out who this guy is. As he sat down to expertly roll a loose ... was actually able to put my 21M.026 knowledge to use. Jeremy's a huge ... a point. I couldn't place his style, really. Bebop erraticism to be

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  writing. But it took me out on the commuter rail to a part of the state ... end up with a black hole for a star). Not to mention I haven't blogged in over a month. Just a lot of loose ends to tie up, you know? I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel ... , I believe my dad said it best, "Wow, looks like you gave birth to a ... she considers her brother to be a threat. At best, she thinks he's pure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006