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• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... fluttering diaphragm in the heart of a speaker. Speaking of molecules, I ... the semester progresses. What I CAN say is that every particle in every

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... which 20 happened this past weekend. Usually I take a night bus and sleep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... agnostic as to whether a student who has taken the exams should submit their ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  ’s what I’ll call it.  Here’s the prototype I built in lab today. It uses ... :  Yesterday, I made a comment on Ellie’s Fantastic Blog, in which I quickly ... Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... blog, hence why you're seeing two blogs in a week. Maybe I'll run out of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  in order to get a chance at kissing him? What??? I'm mad, y'all. Also ... cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a ... character development. What I wanted to see more of in this show was Devi

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three-day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student ... socioeconomic means, live in a rural area, or might be the first in their family
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  choosing: a selection of t-shirts, shot in the ever wonderful medium of the i ... 'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright-eyed, eighteen-year-old baby boy was born. In his future lies a childhood, with all its requisite promises and challenges; in his past lies a strong

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  I've always been excited about finding new rec’ stuff to try out in ... in my entire primary and secondary school P.E. career, but that’s what ... -performed war dance. ‚ò∫ While Dodgeball is played in the Z-Center – a central

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Storm, an M.I.T.-trained scientist who specializes in genetic research ... add to this list! What am I missing? ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  the good folks at Hopkins Insider for the idea): 1. In order, what were ... Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow, here are a few notes... Some folks from MIT and NIST further confirmed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• 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 toddler!" Yes, he's a very big boy. As we settle in with our newest bundle

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  about it? Well, I got this email earlier in the year. As a first ... 't get in because I wasn't enough of a special snowflake" or "They probably ... probably only got in because I'm a girl." This is a toxic mindset that was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  because I had a sweet research job working in the labs of Massachusetts General Hospital. The first summer, I lived in a loft apartment right across ... journal,) and I had always been interested in writing but never had a chance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... chemical change, so what gives? This has now been bothering me for over a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action: Decisions Now Available An announcement.

  

  MIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... available at https://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.edu You can log in

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  show up in my inbox and in conversations regularly, and even if I don't know the exact words that they stand for, I usually know what entities ... , and I now have a list of 140 different acronyms used at MIT. I spent two

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  complaining, but a community nevertheless. In our clique-y self-selected tables ... in the dining. One time, there was a mass exodus when Lamawal found a ... his first month in NTIC, he secured a deal with a security guard. Each

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017