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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... deserve. If you are interested in seeing more examples of MIT students ... sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  sometimes in lecture, new concepts can perform astounding backflips right over ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a ... school. I know I’ve spent my fair share of time in the basement study room

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  .mit.edu/research buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/what-percent-compatible-are-you ... many of the original bullets were written in the acronym-filled gibberish

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  . What makes a place? If you were plopped down in a medieval castle, you ... Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  amazing things -- can I crash with you when I visit? P.S. In case you're as ... era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... I've worked in corporate America for about 5 "semesters" now (they don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  ) and solved more meta puzzles than we ever had before. You can check out ... synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  're against you. But, in reality, I'm incredibly soft. I gush about my friends ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... friend had said earlier tonight. "You seem happier." I am. Words cannot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst yourselves below. As always, please keep your comments civil and friendly in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst yourselves below. As always, please keep your comments civil and friendly in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  say that I loved talking to you early admits and I can't wait to meet ... '10s. You guys are awesome, and I'm so psyched to meet you at CPW. It ... involved in applicants and prefrosh that it's hard not to get excited

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  gets to the heart of why I declared Computer Science as my major—you can ... You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to ... there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... they best fit in. This freedom to choose where you live was actually one ... -inch plywood instead—that stuff bends! You can’t use that for a floor!) After we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  curios. As you can see, Allan won our heated debate, since you are reading ... In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  if you are still interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you ... This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  , anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which means that I am highly ... . In fact, joking aside in the previous thread, I honestly don't know yet

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  used in a myriad of applications. As you can see, the papers we read in ... user’s body. It does this in real time and can handle multiple users. The ... 's worth of reading...even in technical classes! :O Recently a big chunk of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn ... can autonomously manipulate physical objects in unstructured ... " post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  typical singing/dancing you tend you see in in-person shows. Given that ... In mid-November, a [annotation note=undergraduate association ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I ... . Unfortunately, I can't pull the blankets back over my head and go back to sleep ... find their place at MIT so there were no women living in sorority houses

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  you can see just how many people where there. It's incredible.) Enjoy ... So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that ... 's qualifying rounds in something like 20 years, so people around here were pretty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008