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• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  of the game?” Four weeks later, I arrived at my new home - MIT campus ... , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... would inspire me to new heights of athleticism (although given his recent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  light" of his new $3 construction lamp, acquired at the Swapfest. Alas ... whole point. Tim found a new perch. Understandably, all of this ... rained for the majority of the week and everyone generally stayed indoors

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... live at MIT and have a taste of independence. After returning home and ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  undergrads at the moment. Whatever the case is, it's not the end of the world ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that ... one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up ... for the world?[annotation note="to be clear, plenty of people at MIT

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... take advantage of the new feature they implemented after Randall Munroe ... ”) system where you'd get a 5.0 instead of a 4.0 for an A in an AP class. At

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  puzzling at the end of eighth grade, but as high school dug its claws into me ... at our lunch table. Within a few days of returning home, I fell in love ... new hobby, or if you miss one you used to love, or if any of the things

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  spread the word of Jesus recently. Everyone around us at the restaurant was ... of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  after their success at the Battle of Vimy, and the 22e was established as ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... movie or favorite scenes/lines. I'll post the results of the "Weekend at ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so ... into a discussion about the kind of person who's happy at MIT. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  , full of possibilities. Today, my new job and my new city feel the same ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  alarming amount of tropical fruit plants on my apartment front stoop there ... time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://youtu.be/-tKgY5Ye-ak?t=373 livestream of me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  the ground—at home I did a good 40% of my homework and 90% of my You ... [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... stacks of packages are reaching NBA-player height, so if you've received an

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  production of a musical  I went with Silu S. ’24 to watch Six at the Emerson ... for no reason). I learned that the singularity is at the center of the ... underwatering or a mix of both.  at the beginning of this year, with some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  friends here at MIT who take care of me in times of ups and downs; there is an abundance of opportunities here at MIT to grow and learn more ... I am also a brother of Zeta Beta Tau here at MIT, working to help the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  nerdy side of things, I also joined the MIT Science Fiction Society at the ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  is not a place where parental desires matter. At the end of the day ... arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012