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  Welcome to our new bloggers! introducing the baby bloggers of 2026

  

  will let readers be the judge of degree, as she blogs her way through the ... -than-first-years —  because that is the number of '2027s we expect to see graduating (between ... continuity of posters. Their cartoon faces (drawn by our peerless kitty with a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking member of the Kult of Kamen. One of the (many) things Dean Kamen has said ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

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

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  /business degree of the STEM world. BUT! Let me provide my justification for choosing ... -on nature and thinking of an engineering degree combined with the abstract ... I come today as the bearer of some un-chic news. It is not only a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  Perpendicular Universe, Exactly, Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of ... universe in a vending machine to get a cup of coffee. After recovering the ... lockboxes didn't really make sense in-universe. Then there was the concept of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  you many of resources like offering you hosting space where you can ... ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1 ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... Universe but also might possibly be a magician, because: In 10 minutes he untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process ... great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire ... your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of ... )I'm almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur '03 is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Institute for Talent Development and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  such as MIT's Paul Samuelson, the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman ... On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  a pair of awesome Steven Universe socks! It adds to my steven-universe ... our entire lives (at least during the semester). Lots of people use ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  deception lubricates the societal wheels of Ferrante's universe and make it ... aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... 've been offered four dresses to try on. Just seeing them in my room fills me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011