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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... championship level of the NCAA tournament. This is such a cool award to win ... is a magnet, drawing all the academically motivated jocks straight to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  . First, a quick background just so you guys know where I am coming from. I ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... ideas could be anything: sharpening a t-cell to pierce cancer cells, using

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... wearing a red dress with white polka dots to match her red (pink?) hair. She

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  you could say the goal is to end up in a future where people have data ... end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... at hacklodge, a one-week program where ~20 college students live in a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  given the green light to take a boat out on the water. Once we started to ... strong connections between people. Everyone has a single common goal (to ... will to work as a unit. To not buy into that is to diminish the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people ... cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  different way, I feel like I have time to write about it. I've been a part of Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for ... to host a comedy special. Demon #2 - These people are giving me money

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... requested a conflict exam in a class where the professor didn't offer conflict

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student ... or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess ... play a varsity sport. *sigh* Sometimes they expect you to have it all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  they were doing. I'm really grateful to be part of a community where ... may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... planned out all my pie stops: a Project Manus makerspace mentor social ... social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  a dorm where there are kitchens down the hall from every room. If ... fragrance. It's a much more temporary smell as compared to food, so it doesn ... dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get ... you could, y'know, take a three-and-a-half hour car ride to New

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  laboratories and designed a device that isolates white blood cells to better ... 'll be posting about the experience! (In the meantime, feel free to leave a ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... Deans and drove them to Briggs field where the flight demonstrations were ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  of the classroom where we’d meet twice a week. But on February 10th ... events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... sailing beaver, a pistol beaver, and a fencing beaver, to represent the four

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... inspiring other learners was welcome to participate. It was a hackathon of a ... went to Snipmap, a browser extension and desktop application for writing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot ... its purpose and they know what to do. A few rehearsals later, and it

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... of many simple “modules” linked together to form a larger, more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... International Development Network, a community network developed to promote and ... find out tonight! 7:00 PM -- Attend associate advisor training to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006