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• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , when they offer me tomato salad at dinner, they have no idea that I ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  best (and I think succeeded at) renormalizing my expectations of grades ... social, and partly a function of being a nerd at a nerd school surrounded ... other MIT students."]this degree[/annotation]. I think some of it comes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the video conferencing setup, with two of us at MIT, two of us at ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www ... entrepreneurial path. He was present at the creation of Thinking Machines, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  last rule helps break out of that stress. Every weekend, I take at least ... my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim ... . Two weeks later, I was at my first ever ultimate frisbee tournament. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  effect and at other times offer a range of harmony, dissonance, and melody ... will be viewable online at some point, and there are pictures of most of ... Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... . a lot of people at mit walk with their hands in their pockets, either ... , since most buildings at mit and in the rest of the world have fairly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... joke that maybe still exists at MIT: "Our tests are like, 'The density of ... -threatening hemorrhage in a matter of minutes at delivery (which is why it was once known

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  financial aid at Connecticut College. "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I ... students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  summer roommate from Bombay) enjoy a sampler of Belgian beers at one of the ... 't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels ... the Thalys website for "summer offers"--you could get fast connections

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... people nerding out about all sorts of topics. It starts at CPW when you ... ’s why I’ve called at least half of my professors by their first names, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  saturday night at the house of some family friends, I catch a glimpse of the ... Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a ... field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8 ... "Head of the Charles". Activities line the route. There is a concert at ... plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  half of the class was entirely taught by heads of things at a particular ... who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  glimpse of what a writing assignment at MIT can look like. To preface that ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary ... the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be freshmen.   ... myself to a lot of things at MIT I wouldn't have found otherwise! However ... among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... work right at the edge of their abilities. But this difficulty is what ... One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  [annotation note="the Canon!"]set of songs [/annotation] played at the end of ... I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  this paper was the incredible depth of making here at MIT. I learned that ... at MIT. Of those who responded, 78% said MIT's reputation for making ... Makers through this paper, and prouder still to work at an institution full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014