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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  , and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about ... Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  senior manager would remain at the peak of my dreams. I would’ve missed out ... from Northwestern University’s science and health journalism program, I ... ’m going to explain and sprinkle some of my artworks throughout—here’s piece

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  . We met one of the organizers at the Next Gen Summit and he loved our ... in four different states. Friday in Philly, Monday in New York, Tuesday ... ; Within the past year, I've met so many new friends.   A lot of ups

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... quality of the safety net at MIT. At MIT the students are multi ... length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  honest account, even if it’s overwhelming at times. Please take care of ... , on-campus resources at the end of the article, as well as some notes if ... questions at the early half of my recovery, I know it would have been

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to ... ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The ... like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... scavenge the town dump (the social center of some New Hampshire towns) for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  synopsis of everything I haven't blogged about. I spent a week in New York ... things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each ... of a similar plan being implemented at MIT. Life has often felt surreal ... , looking out of my giant window at Briggs field and Simmons. It felt odd to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  idea pop into my head at the strangest of moments, and quickly jot it ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... you can use it. It's actually one thing I wish there was more of at MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  , bad one.) The timing of the talk wasn’t great; it started at 7 pm ... one of the biggest lecture halls at MIT, there were far more fans than ... reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at ... hill at the Killarney end of the Gap of Dunlow, which I might try for ... charged me at the top of the Gap, when there was still wifi, and when at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during ... their made out of is a cool party trick (at least at the parties I go to ... class at MIT on my resume. Not bad. Plus it's my favorite professor's last

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... , dusty town of Colorado, but also gaining new “familiarities”, if you will

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  universe, and everything with an awesome group of people and free food! If ... MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... summary of the event. ____________________________________ At 12 years old ... . Lou proposes a new system that takes advantage of modern technology, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a ... Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... , when I was staying at my friend Daniel's house in New Jersey. I opened my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I ... now, on display at the front of the Harvard COOP. Gross! I urge you to ... . Well, at least most people don’t. I had no idea what kind of people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016