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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  case you don't know the origins of the story in Brokeback Mountain: it ... "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in ... of sophomore year studying abroad in Spain Veena '06 is former captain

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  you actually attended MIT. In a way it makes me feel more like a real ... Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the ... result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  In my last post (which was way too long ago 😖), but I guess I should ... :^) Programming is also kicking my butt :^) In conclusion: my butt is being kicked ... funny? Sometimes when you need help the best thing to do is ask for help

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... Methods in Aerospace Engineering. 21W.785, Communicating in Cyberspace

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal ... friends were present in this dream. Except they weren't normal. They were ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... Fenway Park exit the stadium just in time to watch the lead runners come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of 2012 As I read the remarks, I reflected on the truth that I found in his

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  % participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... 't bad, though (thanks for thinking of it, Class of 2006). For those of you ... comes into play -- if you don't adjust for inflation, these amounts sum to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  its way. For now, if you're ever in building 33, stop by the hangar and ... had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting ... past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  walk off, diploma in hand, you'll be hearing this. ... in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to MIT and graduated, ergo, genius. By this standard, in two years I need

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a ... countries and four continents. The students come from top schools in applicant ... Emily, who many of you interacted with during the transfer admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year ... all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  time during which absolutely nothing is expected of you; ironically, you ... to GIRs, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an MIT student who doesn't insist that you should spend at least one IAP at MIT, just doing things for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the ... depressed in my room. The last time I had my weekly cadence torn apart was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  15 with a minor in 14 [in layman's terms: a double major in Mathematics and Management, and a minor in Economics] What's next: Working as a ... Random Variables with Prof. Richard Dudley. It was a class in probability

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... the jog estimating that in miles-per-hour and minutes-per-mile. Hours ... -turned-president coined the term "military-industrial complex" in his farewell address? 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022