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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  has one of the nation's top undergrad business schools, and I could even ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... 's movie selection was very disturbing: D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  high school that I’m proud of, including being able to support my parents ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school, I stared blankly at a wall whenever I was hit with a wave of sadness

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different. Tonight I have a choice. I mean, school hasn’t even started yet so I have no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are ... the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed ... diversity." I have huge feet, as you know. One of my favorite childhood

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  . That includes both robots and mental health. There’s been a lot of debate on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... positivity. I know I did. That’s part of why I decided to write this two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  …  Today, my collection of school supplies consists of my ipad, my apple pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day ... Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  's Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate Strike. All ... around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area ... speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to ... school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  :30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry ... out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  line at about 10:40 a.m., there were about 20 people ahead of me. Ten minutes later, there were hundreds of people behind me. Apparently, I got ... last row of reserved seating. We did, however, throw a few jealous looks

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  "expressed interest" in the school, and they try to use that piece of data to ... You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Legacy of England (21L.420), then they are available! Another traditional duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and ... Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... Economics when I got into MIT. Having been on autopilot during high school, I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005