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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key ... Today, three very cool articles about MIT people. First, an article ... Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for facilities has finally decided to recognize the Institute's gender balance with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  we first moved in last year. I decided to keep it that way. But it ... the end of the Infinite. But I couldn't go into campus, so I had to take ... get to take exciting classes in your first year? But maybe, just maybe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While ... keys to our rental house. A couple calls later, the owner of the house

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  next 6 months! ^ from the Infinite Corridor to 1 Infinite Loop   ... Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined ... Spring 2015 and will not be able to blog about MIT-related activities

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the ... technology to bear on the challenges that cancer presents. Key discoveries Identified the molecules that led to two of the first FDA-approved, anti

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  When we first decided to coordinate 20th anniversary blog posts, I ... scrambled to film and edit a vlog for—I think—the first time since undergrad ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Down the steps to my classroom Made it to my first class of the day, 8 ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus. Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  first ever flight cancellation. Basically, I was waiting to make a ... was clearly a little hesitant to hand me over the keys when I asked her ... So this weekend I managed to visit two time zones and five airports

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  first year, declaring yourself undesignated allows you to choose an ... are happy to chat with freshmen who show initiative. That's the key ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus ... together is during “Greek Week,’ which was held this year from April 27 to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry ... finding somebody with a key to the door I shoved it open and we breached their stronghold. Our first priority was to get out the window to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  first semester at MIT, I decided that it was the perfect time to apply to ... the NIH worked very hard. But I prefer to believe I got my first job ... freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  many SAT prep books, and all of the books said that the key to the SAT ... when we first moved to Florida. It just always felt really magical! So ... research, so we wanted to do that to, or so we thought. Our first “research

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Association (or the UA for short, because MIT students love acronyms) aims to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  Mass Ave from Harvard to meet me at Abide. I stopped by Saloniki first to ... need to store anything. This was good for two reasons. First, I wouldn ... returned my key to the front desk. As I left MacGregor House, the door felt

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  down their entire speech to three key words that seemingly have nothing ... proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014