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• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  of a lifetime,” but to only focus on education is selling it short. In ... The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  is an absolute nightmare.  I’m friends with four cats in a trenchcoat ... i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard ... of college, and i guess life as a whole, is finding forms of it. i was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  people who thinks that Stata is the most hideous excuse for a building I ... in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I ... pages in a recycling box in the cluster, so Ruth raided one of these and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... this is something you don't truly realize until you live in a foreign ... realize that our country of racial diversity is a minority in a world full

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most ... from Luis, a grad student from Mexico studying finance in Sloan who was ... student from France who is interested in practicing English. C'est excellent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  ."]“mild gastrointestinal issues”[/annotation] who needed a home. We named him Percy, which is ... is a freshman in college; I am old"]brother's high school graduation ... use artificial flowers instead of candles. My wife, who is a program

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  good. He explained that DeRon is unlike other backs who, when they get in ... cheers is a number. The members shout out the digits of pi. As in the ratio ... rusher in Division III: senior running back DeRon Brown, who is putting up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• 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 ... is a seminar-style course on ethics in literature. It’s co-taught by my ... shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  the semester, we were thrown into the darkroom. It might as well be a time-machine (film? what’s that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is ... are some of my works from the semester so far; the first is a rayogram

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  and the iPod Touch series. The app is free, and features: A ... is @mitcpw (managed by Admissions Officer Jen Wong, who deserves a big ... MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  A man who is hired to eavesdrop on a conversation wrestles with his ... is money, and IAP is essentially like being handed a briefcase full of ... -speaking-animal-gods-that-is-at-one-point-also-ruled-by-a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  MIT students can "drop" a class. MIT is fairly flexible about things, as ... , "The piano drop was first enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker ... the past. In honor of him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  argument; that’s a sign of weakness that will immediately result in losing ... in your free time. Or, ignore all of this terrible advice because you ... became a lot easier when the phrase "I don't know what that is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of ... connected in a moment. But first, let me explain...FIRST. FIRST (which stands ... , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  pathways to chemistry that is actually occuring in a particular process (eg ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number ... sub-department majors, including the number of people who were awarded a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside ... even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school ... MIT, I found out there were a lot of nerds here. (Who knew?) Some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right ... won an Annie Look-a-Like contest in Chicago when I was seven years old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a ... you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... Preview Weekend In the fall of 2017, I introduced a new set of brand

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, who received his PhD in ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  completely forgotten the physics line number (18? 25? 49? 61?) In a total panic ... 'll both be in Pasadena post-grad (he'll be at NASA JPL). Hooray! A new friend :) Course 8 was next in line to Course 9, so I managed to get a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014