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• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  my awareness to power relations, infrastructure, and state building and ... classes the first week, made some tough decisions, and dropped down to 5 the ... getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  Laboratory, the FBI, the Department of Defense, the United States Army and the Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and ... , journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At ... the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  will have to take for the degree. 4.111 basically introduces design and ... I am really excited for spring semester’s classes, and without ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS ... subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines

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

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a ... myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all weekend. I cannot hope to match their wit and experiences, but I am SO

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  , much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd fights do, on twitter and facebook. (cue flashback music) Some brief background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my ... and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... . The inside is magnificent, and the history is quite interesting. All of the objects and paintings in the museum are exactly as Ms. Gardner left

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of ... as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  . What did they find so intriguing about a green tree, scary reptiles, and ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  surprisingly numerous students who enjoy the outdoors and travel. If there's one ... , especially for an MIT student), settling onto the plan and watching the ground ... and independent and refreshed, even though I always get (un)lucky enough

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  camp two years ago, when we were all crashing andrew's room and it was the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After I found this song (and immediately realized how positively musically delicious it is), I forgot about my Saturday morning cartoons a few times and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Action (EA), and January 1 for Regular Action (RA). While there are still ... Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011