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• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I ... eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -sequitir that Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and MIT Institute Professor John ... the door and the simple statement "Your alarm has been going off for over an hour." "Okay." said I, shut the door, rectified the problem, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg, like our own Chris M and Snively, is someone who is really fantastically creative, and whose creative energies often erupt into the physical world in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• 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 mean myself and about ten other people I have somehow coerced into ... freshmen and provide them with all the support they might need to succeed

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

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... upcoming Krrish and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.There was a nice article I meant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm ... -Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be ... Insights: Marshall Plan, Japan, and Iraq - John W. Dower, Charles S. Maier

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh, of course she ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print ... anything new and creative just because it's new or creative. Last week Holly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  and urban planning degrees. As I learned more about the field and ... So I think that the goal was that this post be filled with wisdom and ... the knowledge that life after MIT is filled with rainbows, unicorns (and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where ... sailing. Before you argue with that, go spend a few hours lying outside, and ... an armless Orion, and the butt and tail of Ursa Major. One star of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  Notch National Forest and State Park. It was a truly incredible trip: we ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz ... packed full of sleeping bags, tents, and food. We were headed about 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  traditions that temper the pains of work and study with the welcome relief of ... prepared by a group of residents on Pecker floor and generously shared ... that the partaker of the feast brought his own spoon and provided that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  institutions of government and the representation of competing interests. Topics ... other countries. Reviews economic, cultural, and institutional ... this big list of about 10 different class combinations and had narrowed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  ="Cameron: except of course North Dakota and Florida."]any other state in the ... .[/annotation] The state is one more thing to have in common with someone, and it is a ... ." This is true; the registrar provides state-by-state data on how many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  at the Institute—and he's been practicing his craft in Lobby 10 ever ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  for granted the wonderfully fast, universally-available and fast ... ) program, I was pretty excited about the grass. The CME program lets MIT and Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  represent galaxies floating in that universe, and also that this had nothing ... , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... less tangible subjects, namely the homogeneity and isotropy of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  my friends and their family. every saturday or sunday my freshman fall ... do. at least that’s what everyone told me, and so that’s what i ... to take, and i knew what courses i wanted to eventually take, and so 18

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  loved and accepted and celebrated. "The arc of the moral universe is ... over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few ... class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... future application and someone else's on balancing scales. The cynical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  , papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my ... Intercollegiate Service Organization (BISCO) and we have monthly activities at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006