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• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to ... most creative stories I've heard. Just gotta share this. :) "MIT, for ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  ahead and finally bought an actual laptop stand. it's way lighter. should've done this way earlier. i made some new door signs for floorpi. usually ... a proper one, so i just kinda put something together in a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... history community about whether and for how long they actually met (an ... an apple in one hand and a copy of Paradise Lost in the other, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into ... I'll be an admissions blogger, and so on. I promise - like, for real ... curriculum for this (and the other classes) on OCW if you're interested in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in ... that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so ... Institut Curie. I spent my time at Curie in a few projects. For my main

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... the most famous bakery in Boston, if not the entire world, Mike's Pastry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  spring in time for that (or at least hosted an equivalent event). Because ... their own. In two weeks, I’ll be back for dorm-made rollercoaster ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  machine for something Build 3 new things in the makerspaces Travel ... Trilogy Keep my new fish alive (upcoming blog) Pull an all nighter in a ... challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  all times. It's exhausting. For the first three weeks of being in San ... that I made him wake up for literally no one in line. So we left the area ... necessary as all the other summers I've had in college. And I'm excited for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... . Basically, it’s training to become an officer in the U.S. Military. ROTC gives ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  ,[/annotation] so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and ... You got in…wait…YOU GOT IN!!! You might be wondering, “What’s next ... "]later today,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on [annotation

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was an email from Marilee, asking me to post her first-ever blog entry. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  research in the context of current national and global events. For Fall 2020 ... Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the ... description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  in the eye and saying "What do you do for fun around here?" It caught ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  one layer (still in its plastic wrapping) for an hour to thaw ... plastic wrapping in one layer for an hour (or rinse it under cold water) to ... . This blog post is mostly for me but it is also for you, in case you live

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  history of the Kazakh people in story and song, and went for long dawn runs ... information for international students here on our website, if you're an ... International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  comfortably in a bus designed for twice as many people as we had) and chatted ... (Mandatory for Inventors) You know, in movies , how memories and flashbacks ... , making it back to MIT around 11 or 12 o'clock, just in time for class on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  People at MIT walk fast. Maybe this is an east coast thing, maybe it’s a college student thing, maybe it’s just an “I grew up in laid ... take pictures in the lobbies. The grad students and “real adults” walk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... , as he's never in the video...). 4c) Productivity. I am an immensely ... reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012