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• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I ... and over and over again: See, the weird thing about the Patriots this year (and the last few years) is that the team has been consistently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... reserves are drying out, glaciers are melting, and the world’s supply

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... hours: However, when Dr. Hughes started lecturing I was polite and put ... bass and the correct preparation and downward resolution of the sevenths

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  "kuya reggie" or "kuya john dave". and people in lower years called me ... degrees (celsius), with the daily mean being 28 degrees. in the summers, daily highs are 35 degrees. during the rainy season, from june to october

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  an “Institute of Technology.” A semester and a half later, I can say I ... the balance between being an artist and a student at an “Institute of ... feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  and pen wherever I go. It's kind of like a journal, but I don't exactly ... about something, in the shower or while walking home from school, and then ... fragments and bits of rhyme and little sketches of silly little science

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  follow along on my six weeks of adventures in Michigan, Texas, Seattle, and ... where I grew up! I decided to start the trip early and hang out with the ... state of Michigan, Michigan has two peninsulas - the "upper peninsula

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... and things, with small instructions and reminders and smiley faces. And ... lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  's true that you apply for the MIT degree and stay for the people. Lean ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know ... MIT: People Are Good. To some degree, this idea has been reduced to a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to ... are the Institute's best ambassadors. Admissions officers can explain complicated processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... weirdos and nerds; it’s no longer uncool. I joined anything and everything and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  get institute holidays and have to still get our problem sets done), I ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And while CPW will probably indeed fill you with a sense of warmth and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of Building 7. And when you register for classes, you speak of taking 3.091, 8.01, 18.01, and 21W.784. Tell someone you're taking "Physics 1," and they

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside... The sky was overcast, but I spy with my little eyes...OCEAN. And then ... teachers gathered with the program coordinators and Korean teaching

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were ... Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... (and huge crowds!) in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago (both the city and

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  of the Civil Rights movement, the close of World War II, and the state ... post, but something about letter formats feel the most honest and the ... not acknowledge how stressful, overwhelming, and difficult the world has

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , Physics professor Scott Hughes, Professor of Urban Studies and History Robert Fogelson, and Foreign Languages professor Margery Resnick. It's cool ... presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who ... ). Stephen, though, had some unkind words about MIT, and moreover didn't seem

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2030. The comments on ... , shake it off, and remember that you're still standing. There are plenty moments of light still to come. Remember that you will survive — and

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025