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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  approached. Not wanting to look like a complete weirdo taking pictures of a ... observing a job postings bulletin board. Having nothing better to do except ... Massachusetts Avenue to reach Building W20, the Stratton Student Center, home to a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... myself to leave the 'tute, so I took a job at MIT after graduation at the ... Tube channel - on everything from squid skin with a mind of its own to growing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  back of a shelving unit I brought with me to MIT but never actually ... to collapse. Probably as a result, the top half of the shelving unit ... small half, though it is only a half to the extent that one third is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the ... shibboleth. when you go to turn your rat around today, please, take a moment, just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  so much...only to return to a house that does not feel like a home ... of where I am. And I've tried to type this sentence out again and ... again. I spent a lot of my high school life trying to act tough -- a don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you ... Casey ‘18 to build a computer program that plays poker (triplicate sit

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about ... dorm to grab a notebook when I realized I was missing one of my favorite

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  pleasure of it”: video games! “What do you want to major in”: 18C, with a ... started a nonprofit in our town to teach young girls math! “Challenge you ... it was next to Massachusetts. That seemed to ring a bell for them. Now

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them ... , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  means to be an individual, as a lichen is not one being, but two: a fungus ... environment that the fungus and the alga came together to become lichen. 4. A ... — Spruce bark beetles are native to Alaskan forests, and have maintained a

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

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  engineer. Our objective was to design a process that would produce a certain ... the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... a.m. walks back to Baker House became my norm this semester. So, the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million ... bustling, 24/7 lifestyle. No longer could I afford to spend hours on a single

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  graduated last year came to visit for a weekend, and we had brunch at the ... ! OMG it was so incredible to watch, because a l l o f i t w a s p a i n t e d ! ! ! ! 8) Allan: I went to a freind's housewarming, and in true

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  collect a nine foot tall cactus named Bubba. Yes, I'm serious. And to think ... easier by my dear friend Lucy; however, even with a huge honkin' SUV to ... through dirty, dusty, greasy piles of cruft to find the gems that make their

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct ... event where MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and ... really this was a conference about ideas and solutions to the problems that ... to leave a comment letting me know what has been helpful, and what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  and stayed out until sun up dancing to mbalax music - a type of modern ... music scene from world-famous Senegalese drummers. I'm failing at a way to ... This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using our application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  faculty in 1997, and prior to that was a faculty member at UCLA and Harvard ... course that you teach? A. In my undergrad course students go straight to ... seen. It is also also the closest thing I have ever found to a true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010