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• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I ... wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse the world and help people with the amazing, affordable medical

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  occurring at many universities, and that there are far more serious situations ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into the 1918 flu epidemic suggests that closing schools and cancelling large

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my head. The warmth, which had faded, returned, and lingered over the past month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more ... more around… 7 people. The date rolls around and everything goes ... -spicy.”"][/annotation] The food was amazing, and I’m definitely planning to go again

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in August and completely fell in love with it, I wouldn't have even applied ... about the competition I was facing and the level of excellence that would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  top choices with notes of praise and hints of acceptance letters and ... differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... bright objects, awkward s pa ci ng between words and letters is visually displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Currently listening to Currently with: Raymond, Lucy, and Shannia Currently drinking: Odwalla Superfood Currently feeling: warm and cozy in the ... to be here at MIT without you and all the lessons you've taught me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree ... graduation. For most of my time at the Institute, I fully believed them, using their optimism and encouragement to convince myself to pull through just

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  simply curious. And then there are the blank stares - the heavy gazes of ... this orphanage, giving donations, and implementing new programs for ... children had just lost their parents, their homes, and their country. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  's often very windy, and that day it was about -8 degrees C. But inside the ... , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super ... that way. The Radio Society taught me about the various antennae and took

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it's quiet and it smells a little funny. I don't feel very different. If I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  bit and plug it here. The other event is running on Friday and Saturday ... combination of fun and information out of your CPW: Make friends. You'll stay ... . Plus, it's a lot more fun to roam freely through events and around campus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  from you and the due date was last Friday. You can have an extension ... those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your ... 12 pages written, and sketchy headers for the next 7 or so sections

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and production staff - Melis, Dawn '08, Hannah '09, Ivana '11, and me - have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... are women -- nearly twice the national average. And what's more, by ... & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first ... awesome shop guys (particularly Bill and Tasker). I built my first gearbox and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the conclusion that I want to start eating healthy and keeping track of what I am eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... the new friends I made, and end with some sage advice that I would give ... 've sure learned a lot of lessons and made a lot of friends, but I've made

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston ... Chandler '13 and Taylor '13 Jonte '13 Sean '13 Terence '13 Christy '13 ... weights, play football and help his dad with construction. But he's brainy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009