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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  see that I might have had a better success if instead of engineering, I ... after Luís Francisco Verges’ death, a fellowship in his name is still ... Class Supper titled “The Pin” with the tagline “I do not set my life at a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the ... log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into ...  I — the small adorable telekinetic green alien child writing this

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  asked that, in this case, a disciplinary action associated with meaningful ... awareness that would scarcely have been thought of a generation ago." And, in ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... didn't have shade. In Cambridge, there are some rains that feel like a ... the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  in yelling obscenities at a perfectly nice Sing-Along Blog that has ... underground party in which electronic music is played, dancing occurs in a very ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... efforts to try. Isn't it ironic that in my attempt to look after myself, I ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit ... wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... we being paternalistic by doing so? In the end, we think that this

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... with men from outside. The very fact that students do not live in ... dormitory, which ensured that those phones’ installation was a good idea in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  script that texts your phone once your machine is done running a job. Last ... come play with Zuck's puppy. No, that is not a euphemism. oh my god you ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments that this is, indeed, the 2011 EA poster!) There were extensive PowerPoints full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  MIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive a decision ... MIT username and password. I recommend you do this now to make sure everything ... visit MyMIT and click on the lost password link. There is a similar link

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... had a quiz. (Thanks Sara!) In 3.091, we have weekly quizzes that involve ... production in some way, but I was so focused on solving the problem that I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018