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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  yet to be indoctrinated into the Institute's habit of numbering ... I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  green technologies. A lot of my colleagues from that era are still doing ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in ... Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By ... lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... Cuisine" "India offers so many new and exciting things, one of the most ... are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to ... then the Institute-wide snowball fight happened. And maybe I can get

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  . their minds were probably like “whoaaaa Massachusetts Institute of ... I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... -- MIT alums are cool HISTORY OF MIT BLOGGING I'll keep this short

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  suburban Lantana. A resident of suburban Lake Worth, he will be attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., this fall. He plans to ... Delray Beach. Masakazu Toshikage, the consul general of Japan in Miami

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining ... ER or Ally McBeal of admissions. But I digress… I fell into admissions

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  MIT, as it provides an administrative view of the Institute (we're often ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... threshold of a new world of possibilities, like I could really achieve

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post ... Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... jokes. Now that I'm leaving the Institute, I feel confident that it's in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  back then was Michigan Institute of Technology in my uncorrected mental ... I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an