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• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  execution is leftover in some micro-architectural state, and now an attacker ... day of your last Course 21W class, your last Course 6 class, so on and ... everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... 1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  around 6:30 PM, around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and above me I could feel the ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... of college life, self-deprecation, making fun of Harvard, and (best of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of ... , 3 syllables, and a literally self-explanatory spelling, even official

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... about a decade ago and have been captivated ever since. CrashCourse and SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  appreciate the breadth of MIT offerings for athletes and beyond. The main ... My Freshman Pre-Orientation Program (FPOP), Discover Exercise and ... orientation stampede. And I didn't want to miss any MIT opportunities (helped

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... , played twister on a rock wall, played dodgeball on a trampoline, and ... cards, people who competitively grow carnivorous plants, and people who

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs ... and underserved students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Since 1975, their programs have provided enriching
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his ... . Dan Sarewitz, a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, said calling Obama a geek is unfair both to the president-elect and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs, professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... professors whose work looked interesting, including my resume and a short cover

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to monotonously repeating my name, dorm, potential major, and what state I was from ... ". I'm about 95% sure that the specific question was about politics and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  tape, records, and tapestries. the state of art in the dorm has ... the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that student self expression within living spaces is commonplace and encouraged

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  freedom to get around. They offer convenience and flexibility to fit the ... more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... products and can be ordered! Clocky, the alarm clock that runs away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  feelings and activities that aren't directly Institute-related... these ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  a fifteen-minute bus ride. Or MIT and Boston University, or MIT and ... I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  attended high schools that offered dozens of these courses, and, yes, some of ... to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and ... , and we in college admissions officers reinforce that, they don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  final, time. After an hour, I reached a stable state and asked around for ... usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... , and host “learning festivals” at local schools along the way. Though I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... Prize” for engineers) and author of over 900 papers, Professor

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  University which was my first film, and then I started on Coco and that’s what ... photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... screening, and it’s the state of the story at that point so it’ll all be in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017