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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  surgeon, but also good at all of these things too: she’s basically the ... After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  some amount of noise at each point. Originally, we just used straight ... The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  , so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio, which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We travel all over the country (and the world) here at MIT Admissions. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  hosting an event at the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF ... in on all of the details soon. Relatedly, I will also be doing a small event at the American Regions Math League (ARML) at the Penn State site

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... at the wedding: software engineer/Kenjitsu instructor/author, Medical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  conceive of. Even now, it astounds me. At SSP, I learned over and over that ... synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors ... skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  before July 4th, at the end of the annual Boston Harborfest. It’s earlier ... Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  Rutherford's discovery of the atom by hurling ping pong balls at strings of ... up. Wondered why anyone would ever be awake at this time. Wondered why ... -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  make at least one good group of friends. This is not easy. Peoples ... 't feel like I have any idea of what's going on at MIT, but the fact is that I do ... happen is set at a bare minimum of two months. That being said, there are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  arrival) Backpack At least 2 two-liter water bottles full of water One ... One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  out as Business Lead and eventually was elected captain at the turn of ... Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the ... the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  they’re nailing it. At the center of the room is a large table, with most ... Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So ... .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military ... Training, which is 2 weeks of boot-camp style training. You get yelled at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  aware of my own mortality, at the very real prospect of being gone in an ... stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... receive far beyond our initial goal of $30k - raising at this writing over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  'm still one of the "young guys" at the office. But yet the undergraduates ... hamburgers. Don't be afraid of coaching. You may be very good at what you do ... the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  , and majors. I think everyone at MIT has a group of friends like this, so ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  deal with Simon & Schuster! So in September 2018, at the very beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020