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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  giving me a great chance to be better informed about what life is like for ... years is over, I don’t have to graduate or land my dream job…because I ... prepared to take on my sophomore year having declared my major and settled in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  final projects. CMS.300 My final project for CMS.300 was to create a 10 ... typically known for having a lot of budget dedicated to it. I chose the game Ori and the Will of the Wisps to evaluate. CMS.616 For CMS.616, we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  them for too long your back will start hurting and then you'll need to go ... , which is a story for another time—i managed to snag seven tickets for some ... exists to others has always been difficult for me. Just the fact that I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  the water,” says MIT Professor Mark Jarzombek PhD ’86. One argument for ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  begun to transform into a machine. Food for thought? What else -- there ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... saw, "Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters" just opened on January 18

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... and feel it works well for us. One by one I’ve said goodbye to ... to Sacramento for the first central meeting of my California trip. Over

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  incredibly valuable for companies, but restarting servers to apply these ... do after MIT, please click here to cast your vote for Ksplice! The ... to post the voting link for him, I asked him if he actually thought it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... that one in. So the answer is something close to 1/370.86 * 1/12ish ... I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  out for another hour. if there is no good update, i'll probably have to ... found an empty row to sleep in. i fell asleep intermittently for 5 hours ... euros worth of candy, and i intend for this to last me at least an entire

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... —if my goal was to produce well-written sentences, then perhaps the advent ... -generated writing doesn’t bother me, and if somebody were to create a story generated

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I ... upperclassman about reuse (a place for MIT people to give away things they no ... place where you can find video tutorials for a ton of software, you can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when ... out of power midair and came in for a glider landing--except the wind ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  % international citizens. Many thanks to the International Students Association for ... ...)." This left a few people quite intrigued. For example, Laura commented ... highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... to start charging $17 per month for any non-MIT calls (I believe this ... cool stuff that I don't really care about for the low price of -75.00. If

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours ... differences between this country and ours. For example, Canada uses the metric

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... for 18 cents each! Needless to say, I was thrilled. (I bought 12 ... bus back to MIT for Nightmarket. This event is co-sponsored by lots of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for ... students and our own admissions criteria to ensure we make good decisions for ... students to pick whatever is the safest and most affordable option for them

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  point of these meetings is for us to learn about the things that interest ... are also a good chance for you to learn more about MIT from someone who ... these conversations are a way for you and for us to learn about each other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... statehouse, but it costs money, and Adam and I were determined to spend as ... going to march to Charlestown by land, or they were going to go via the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006