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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to My Museum of MIT The Objects That Define MIT, imo

  

  satirical, and entirely my opinion. Some of these are MIT specific, and some ... piece of you $100 writing utensil. Eh, screw it, you have work to do ... the fruits of your labor with a fruit to pair with your labor! Spot

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 4, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to My Museum of MIT The Objects That Define MIT, imo

  

  satirical, and entirely my opinion. Some of these are MIT specific, and some ... piece of you $100 writing utensil. Eh, screw it, you have work to do ... the fruits of your labor with a fruit to pair with your labor! Spot

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 4, 2026
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... scent of carnage spread over all of dorm row, until all of West Campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... our solar system, and getting a broad introduction to the universe using quantum physics and thermodynamics. Three of my professors have Wikipedia

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  Beginning a week from Saturday, MIT will be going on the road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details ... seniors) to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... be happy" [annotation note="First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes"]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... of navigating to just the topic you want. You know that bright, rainbow-colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... high school of 2,000+, graduating class of 620, class sizes of about 20

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series of Firefly, which I got for Christmas, with my sister - Seen King Kong

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... number of questions, my answers must be brief (sorry for the brevity). Will ... prospective students of the obvious merits of MIT?" Campus Preview Weekend (CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I didn’t know a lot coming into MIT why does it feel so embarrassing to learn

  

  One of the most embarrassing memories I have happened during a summer ... since I clearly already knew how to use LaTeX, I could help some of the people around me. So, instead of spending a few minutes embarrassed to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 10, 2026