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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... Gaga”) photographed on the top floor of the MIT museum using a Polaroid camera that more-than-kind-of looks like a droid from The Clone Wars, of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM ... limit. Unfortunately, this appears to be the limit of absurdity as fun

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the only person keeping this world in balance.  He's kind of like the Avatar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of summer, and for the later part of summer managed to persuade Amber H. '11

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

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and ... singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... ). One of the reporters, Andrei, told me (in Russian), &ldquo ... out of touch with American life that I didn’t even remember the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale ... ! Students, educators, and other segments of the MIT community crowded room

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the ... their behalf). One of my favorite places to run in Boston with the cross country and track team is to Jamaica Pond (part of the Boston’s Emerald

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the ... . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a

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

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , the other facing the sunlight. Nearly twelve uninterrupted weeks of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... 'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing ... missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... inspirational here that would make the hurt of not being admitted go away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose ... photographing Boston Ride the full length of the Red Line Attend all the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs ... desktop called “Graveyard of the Forsaken”, the hero realized that the ... is the time. Signed, Petey of the Blogs.” With the passage of time

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019