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• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help ... Last month, tragedy hit MIT. That week was chaotic and emotional. Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox ... opportunity to live and work with gifted students as they took classes through the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... University  Walk everywhere for a week instead of biking or using public ... , iPad, or laptop Watch the sun set and rise from the Green Building

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays ... coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and ... acceptable. Here at MIT, I learn the mysterious words and ways of computers

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  This blog post is by my brilliant Randomite, computer scientist, and ... be clicked for larger versions. You can read more blog posts by and ... —tomorrow they would be mounting their saddles and pedalling off into the deserts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  burning out were a universal Mocha exec experience, and part of the argument ... seven hours with Kinematix and 1-2 with Mocha, so I'm dancing more than I ... -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  something hilarious and universal about the way parents who didn't speak ... large containers of 'gourmet' fries outside Kresge this afternoon, and saw ... couple friends and I conveniently watched this summer out of boredom

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Chinese and international universities. Our conversation seems to suggest ... Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades ... ’s see – 3 F’s and 2 C’s? What!!! Second-semester can’t be like this! Okay

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano ... over our footsteps and shouting in an otherwise silent and uneventful night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  /herself) having gone to the Institute. After several study and work abroad ... since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my ... moved west to Palo Alto for my master's and decided to stay when I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  -time applicants to MIT, this application is newer than most, and we're [annotation ... technical backend and applicant interface to make it more robust and user ... note="including the Self-reported Coursework, Test Scores, and Activities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  of our core economic and social institutions. He believes it’s time the ... winner receives $100,000 and two years of support from Thiel's network in Silicon Valley and beyond. The MIT students (or should I say former MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  very least an appreciation, of science and technology. One Institute ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... name is Gordon and I’m from sunny Santa Monica, California. Most would

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... . Pharmaceutical companies are facing enormous pressure to cut cost and increase ... Engineering and Biology majors, along with his Biomedical Engineering minor, to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  at the Institute. The pomp and circumstance of an MIT graduation was a ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  University), which is where my grandparents on my mother's side met and ... and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case, Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  Reserve UniversityFranklin W. Olin College of EngineeringOhio University And ... name is Xing Cai and a full profile of her character is available from ... the mystery! Thanks, Eric, for identifying Xing Cai, and thanks Alissa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched Fresh with Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones a couple weeks ago and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022