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• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... ’s violin Learn 3 new coding languages 3D print something  Use a sewing ... (This might be very ambitious) Do 50% of my Psets off campus Finish a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  stems from being a visual learner, such that names people tell me don ... ="attachment_77572" align="aligncenter" width="327"] clockwise from top: a candle ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  recruiting season again, but this year, I escaped from the cycle by accepting a ... having a job. I had been safe from it sophomore year, but junior year, I ... *inferior* to getting a job in some way. This probably stems from the fact

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , strong, hard working, and like all those who graduate from Tech, has a good ... hand): Which Rat is your favorite? [updated from a previous entries ... the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... ." "Wow, you must be getting a 5.0 this term!" FALSE. HASS classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get groceries from Target, Hmart, or Daily Table, or to grab a latte from Caffe ... as a holiday gift. So I bought a body pillow from Target and Amazon

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  signal. PWM is a way of varying a signal from completely on to completely ... post about how you go from that flowchart to a circuit, and then to an ... last for maybe one post after this one. But, hey - a guy can dream, right

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  graduate from MIT and go to work at a Fortune 500 company or a nonprofit, or ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  yet. GI JOE A free gift from the HASBRO building at Toy Fair. $25 ... of Wisdom A birthday present from my Grandma. It makes me wise ... During first semester I published a nice little entry about my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... its launch in 2009, it has maintained a straightforward and uncommon aesthetic: a single “Spotlight” image surrounded by links to sites

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... from over 200 miles all across Wyoming, here for what they called “a once ... from. Growing up on a farm in rural Wyoming, college felt like a distant

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  -Decision Day Posts from MIT Bloggers: Let's Go Fly a Kite by Joel G. '18 A ... Feynman MIT '39) A Pep Talk from Kid President to You from Soul ... Working" from Buzzfeed   F*ck That: A Guided Meditation by Jason Headley

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  application now, so that if you are admitted from the waitlist, we'll have a ... , you should stay in contact with us. A letter, a phone call, notes from ... for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here ... Pig Stamp from the currently circulating USPS New Year Zodiac Stamps." -- Jane, California "I discovered a super-secret poster of the next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  visible. Up ahead, he sees the lights from a gleaming building. Maybe a few ... wanted a degree from MIT? How did we know he even wanted to hear funny stories from a bottle of Wine, no matter how nice and old the bottle was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Fellowship, a FIRST award from the National Institute on Aging, and the Kenneth ... on how far they live from a "high quality" hospital. And I am studying ... talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  from the walk there — did you know they have a "dome" as well?   ... laptop] S: A gift from my sister, who's a freshman at Harvard. [Picture of ... incorporates ideas from math and urban planning. [Picture of a laptop and a slice

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  ; we're moving from one world to a new, very different one. My routine is ... You've already heard quite a bit from me on this subject. The short ... feels like I'm in a whirlwind, jumping from meeting to meeting with no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020