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• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... demographic.   This is a different argument, one which does not suffer from ... "the child of a Foxconn line operator in China." But according to Forbes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  manifest inside a person, destroying them from the inside as they are pulled ... If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... those kids that spent half their time in various awkward positions on a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... will get a camera so these videos won't have such terrible quaility lol). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  something about disabling a touchpad. Up the stairs from Clam, a group in ... brave. (Eli hoped to go from “Not knowing how a computer works at all to ... For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the ... Mehta, The University of the Future: Lessons from a 2600 Year History ... and spread by travelers from China, Japan, Tibet, and Korea, where it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  a survey of American cinema, with some international selections from ... after hearing about the program from a member of the MIT Animation Group ... from the past.   I’ve always wanted to watch a score played live

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey everyone, As you may know, I am not-so-secretly a blogger for MIT Admissions ... want to (a) be famous, (b) brag about your awesome summer, (c) help show

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning ... . First, a quick background just so you guys know where I am coming from. I ... project, who seems very hopeful that a lot can come from a space where

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  , which has dissuaded me from joining student groups. But as a junior, I ... " industry careers. But I want to meet more people who are very different from ... out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  little line-follower from tupperware, a comparator, and two photosensors in ... was a Course 6 major from the start, fairly confident that I wanted to ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  was natural to split a cab together. We had to walk a couple blocks from ... Last week was Veterans Day, which meant a four day weekend! The ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  my biography, but here's a little more! I was born in China, grew up there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... MIT was 3 hours long. I sent a photography portfolio and a supplemental

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo ... transfer from Mount Holyoke, China I took this picture outside Chinese ... Massachusetts View from a balloon i launched, about 80000 feet above the ground

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday ... like a French ballade Constantly written, never finished.   I am from ... Shakespearean sonnets, maybe some contemporary pieces from a brief unit in sixth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  day, I came back from a break to have realized the thing I had saved was ... This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... ), from certain streets you can get a beautiful viewpoint out over the rest ... beauty. A view of downtown Quebec City from the Plaines d'Abraham park

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  ’s an indicative headline from the January 11th issue of a leading ... I ever could from a lifetime of reading and studying. I don’t ... Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008