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• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... 180. The interviews, the formalities, the waiting in line to talk to a ... the people had the power to enact change. A lot of the time, it doesn

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

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  spurred a faculty task force that produced a set of recommendations to ... Education at MIT, sent a letter to the ROTC community regarding the recent ... will seek ways to ensure that every MIT student interested in ROTC has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color ... , to be somewhat precise (some friends and I put my laptop on a scale ... that I want others to know I'm a part of. On the inside are stickers that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years ... ’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are ... getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... motivated, especially without a goal to aim towards after undergrad. No matter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... ... lamb, shrimp, all raw... you cook it yourself on a skewer in a marinade

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row ... to multitask, which is almost never a good idea, and check my email

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  prodding, as long as he gets to bite back. Aside from class, there's a huge ... the chick flick A Lot Like Love. We then proceeded to attempt to watch ... seems so important to have a good portfolio and everything. I don't live

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post ... staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... a poster that said this food truck along with one giving out 'gourmet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a ... throw a wild party, where she will be able to embarrass him in front of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... to prove to yourself. Don't do it. If you want to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing ... up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement ... a circle of people around you to help you grow. The 30,000 were that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico, funded by MISTI. I spent the summer pretending to be a grad student

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of ... Series Trophy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009