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• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... ’ve started as early as middle school, when I joined Science Bowl and was one of ... of using my entire skill set instead of choosing between STEM and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  uncomfortable middle school years, who of my age -- trying desperately to be ... Michael Jackson of my middle school years was what I expected to hear ... post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I ... which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... one I left in high school that I don't feel any sort of void left behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... 's entry to catalog the recent history of Brass Rat designs, focusing on the ... Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  admissions decisions, grad school admissions decisions, job application ... as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Codecademy Pro for the rest of the school year DuoLingo - now is a great time ... Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web ... one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  regulatory policy nor as a matter of network design, but instead as a matter of ... team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... revelations undermine any presumption of Facebook as a neutral pipeline for news

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  School of Architecture. For a minor, I may choose either CMS - Comparative ... replace most English exclamations, expressions of feelings, and terms. And ... . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our ... getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  during my junior year of high school, and it was seriously awesome. But ... of students from several local high schools), but I decided to join ... about engineering and design, exclaiming over the sheer awesomeness of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  much school spirit came out of nowhere, and I hope somebody who went ends ... today, so there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon and offer ... school know, because they are/were huge fans of Lil B. My second thought

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  designed that part of our new website. 3. Should you order a "rush" score ... Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit underestimated because of my cross-registered class. Why am I taking so many HASS

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019