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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  ” — this is likely a substantial undercount relative to how students would ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get ... ='It is hard to exaggerate the degree to which Paul — who was not a tall man

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  [/annotation] making a CSS demo which is real neat in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Sunday I ... . Student Events Board is a lot re: planning SpringFest, our big annual ... As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  it out. Did you know blustery was a word? I didn't. I got an email ... characterized by strong winds. Try using that word in a sentence today, it's fun to say. It's funny. Less than two months ago, the weather was much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  as FIESTACON and is sure to be every bit as fun and productive and a ... , music, a moon-bounce, arcade games, and much more. Overall, it was a fun ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  airplane a floating restaurant? Is a pop tart a ravioli? We got into some ... it a listen! Day 4 [caption id="attachment_88593" align="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i ... first song i learned on a dance team at MIT. every time i hear this, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  Senior year: 1 / How to MIT again?! 2 / Keep Calm and Carry On 3 / A team ... . So much of computer science is about systems, systems design thinking ... uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  able to attend number 2 (and am also missing number 3), which is why I ... minutes early with a few friends, and also why our entire row was fangirling ... : What does a biochemist do? He stuffs the butterfly into a blender

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... overheard someone ask "what is your direction right now? or are you in a phase

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the ... -the-game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... .Helvetica: It's an esoteric documentary about how the earthshaking invention ... What Was in the Briefcase. No luck. My best guess is still that it had

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions ... form yet, adding Nikki to the team. This is a behind-the-scenes look at ... . This is just a selection of some of the tasks on our checklist leading up

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... -parallel) lines define a point. This is a duality! Points and lines are clearly ... represents how magnetic flux flows through the original circuit! Again, this is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... ="to be honest, the Pru is not a very interesting mall, but i have weirdly ... This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... the experience of watching Hamilton is to compare it to finishing a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... a very pleasant place to stay. It felt much more relaxed than the ... heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... beating a dead horse is betting on one, so why keep putting your hope in ... yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  pretty.) A big part of orgo is trying to synthesize molecules using a ... chemistry is like a puzzle. It's like one of those logic puzzles where you ... , but other than that your only other refuge is that you don't like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  is different. i'm grateful to have a return offer lined up, and i ... I had no work today I wish I had no work i'm afraid i'm in a grass-is ... 't there. that desire for motivation is placed in a footnote, drowned out by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  with his mom and 15-year-old brother, said his experience is a testament ... importance of having a social support network, which is one of his top ... is a member of Future Business Leaders of America, National Honor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009