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• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... unique thing about MIT is that it is a very supportive environment for ... sport at all), there can be a place for you. For some more well

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  , we learned that Jensen is a elder sibling, Jayna was bullied for being ... fading part of the curve, they may be too faint to see in our images for a ... looking for very short-lived transients that last less than a day

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  . Despite that, I felt inconsolably bad about the exam for a few days. It ... … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while ... the bug in my 6.7930 (ML for Healthcare) PSET a bit faster. I wished I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater ... for A4) that former U.S. President Barack Obama chose to dine at A4 when

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for ... be my home for a few more months. Considering this, stopping at the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  fight for the same thing. There were a lot of young people around too ... Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... covered his vision of secular ethics, a foundation for compassionate action ... lines, it's refreshing for others to embrace and impart a message that is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  Pepsi, then yes, 2003 would be really recent for a logo update. [caption ... 't Pepsi. MIT's a university, so maybe the concept of a graphic identity for ... . There was an informal Caltech icon for a brief time, but recent guidelines

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  ; come pick up a pair for your friends, your sweetheart, or even yourself ... In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  for a number of years, and then she also started an organization that ...  recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority ... Stata Center. I definitely need to up the contrast a bit for the next ... So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  , Physics Quiz, CLASSES!!!] For the moment, I have no profound thesis for a ... really grumpy. But I had a movie screening to take care of. I write for ... , there was a special screening for Red Cliff, an epic ancient Chinese war

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  ,700-$2,100 for a single. -Boston is reallllly nice in the summer! The winter ... , especially for a Red Sox fan. I've never spent a summer living at MIT, so maybe ... : * (generally) higher pay (investment banks can pay up to around $10,000 for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a ... coaching, largely because I had been coaching for a while and I thought it ... upon performances — a race, game, music or dance recital, speech for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  : Igor Belakovskiy ’02. Hi! I’m a rising senior studying Mechanical ... for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be ... ’t looking? For a blissful moment, I breathed in peace. Then I reached my ... “cockroach” would not improve my torment. I looked around the stall for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  registration, which can be a big pain. Notes for those driving in I've been living in Boston for 11 years now, and I don't own a car, and for good ... here as we prepare for nearly two-thirds of the admitted class of 2011 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007