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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  are going through content at a completely unheard-of pace. All of my ... really easy for the first hour, and then there's a bunch of really hard new ... Overleaf/LaTeX. Vaccine UROP I started a new UROP at the Broad Institute

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... looked at it. rip. this technically was my first piece of [annotation ... stickers—and my laptop, of course. my new one is arriving soon and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... price of a subcompact. Dude. I opened the door and was flooded with "new ... meeting. I had dinner with two of the Philly EC's, Mark and Steve, at a nice

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  easily span an entire semester at other universities without the ...  not equally long, the probability of photons exiting at (e) varies with the path ... of single photons. We use one detector aimed at one of the photon

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  a new way, rational inquiry and social concern...the ethos of talking ... film. It's especially obvious when you look at the demographics of the ... appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in. Today, we celebrate the power of democracy and the power of the human

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  than meeting new people and eating free food. Both of which I was fine ... CPW were a mix of And you know what? I ended up at half of them ... 's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement ... map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  stress of college applications and the stress of just being at school in ... November? Is this the universe saying it's proud of me?" I still don ... , letting them know the good news. I got a lot of fake shit at school. A lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course ... visit a couple of weeks in. As shaky and new as it was, my status as a ... , hopelessly misinterpreting T routes (at one point, our group of three ended up

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  snow, you can land on the water," Pasternak says. "It's a new vision of ... /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  advantage of my meal plan freedom to try new places around Cambridge and ... internships at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. One of the sites was ... that I could spend all of my days lying on the floor and staring at the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  expect you to blog at least once every two weeks and create other kinds of ... advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) There are lots of smol nerds running around the various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  apart from other schools. A short list of the topics we discussed at ... hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  of new sick people. I went and checked on them - I brought them bags ... source of my haziness to a new medication I was trying out.  I stopped ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  It is June of last year. I am interning at a medical devices company ... on time of day and whether there's a game at Fenway Park. Twice through ... again, all of it at once, and I feel all that I had ignored before: the

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  ,726,400 SOS When I look back at the blogger I was at the beginning of freshman ... I had started off with the goal of piecing together my life at MIT ... for new submissions to reading all of the pieces to reaching out to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... bajillion new pieces of art have sprung up. One of them looks like a giant ... title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  for a sweet price, so I'm now the proud new owner of a "Real Camera." I ... are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy our sweet dance party a couple of weeks ago (which included a friendly

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010