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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  Salman Khan '96 (18 & 6 and Class President!) and MEng '98, started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his ... relatives and friends were requesting help with their academics, so he started
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the ... that faced us. And after we beat Wellesley 4-1 that night, we were one ... and unstoppable. Watching her sprint down the left side of the field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  … Even though he placed first and I placed fifth and logically we both ... abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... time and access to reference images. With his work I have no idea. then

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data ... learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  still remember walking away and feeling like my blood had drained out of ... , confusion, and shame. The world felt...different? "This was the year he fell to pieces, and ironically, this was the year when more people than he

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  figure are three pacman shapes facing each other. and yet, we still ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... this image: if you haven't seen this before, it looks like black and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  after sophomore year; more distant and withdrawn and on edge, more prone ... , well, I'd survived junior year of high school, hadn't I? And it wasn ... academics, and midterms haven't even hit me yet...things are rough. I'm taking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  , responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never stops, and it comes at you from every direction. And so you walk all over your workload, checking ... saying that I'm back and Junior year has started. But along with the insane

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... function and what we can do with it! What if we can somehow make our text

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... thank her. She has been busy interviewing around the U.S. and even in ... saying, ‘Here’s this cool LEGO picture, and by the way, you can follow this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  were loaded with burgers day and night and prefrosh roamed free across ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was seeing campus through rosy colored glasses, and because I had already

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  're thinking: "what else is new?" You yawn and ask whether I salivate and breathe ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by ... ambiguous by design, since Milton is fond of wordplay and double meaning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... decided to draw. Expressing myself through color and bad Photoshop layer effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... MIT class. It was quite a party with a record number of classmates and their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay!" I will tell ... 'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on the big-girl pants and leaving Debbie Downer Elizabeth back home was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  choir, played oboe in band and full orchestra, and participated in every ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... (MITSO) or Wind Ensemble (MITWE), and I didn’t want to bother

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  all what classes I'm taking this term! I've got a varied and hefty ... ) 8.02-Physics II-Electricity and Magnetism I'm not actually taking this ... physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  upperclassmen have been orienting the froshies, and now it's over. You may have ... got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for ... rave, breakfast every morning, a food fight, jello wrestling, and a ton

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... 'm also TAing this semester, and of course I'm trying to plan Adam's and my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007