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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  more than most people take here. Especially on top of being the ... many of you are in the same boat. It’s quite a humbling feeling; one I ... ’t do the work (any of my team members will tell you I could). I just didn

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million ... allows you to petition out of many basic courses into the more advanced

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  conscious life. I stumbled into the Green brothers’ corner of the internet ... first online community. As members of the Awesome Socks Club, my friends ... independent artists, delivered through the Good Store, and 100% of the proceeds

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a ... activities midway of the San Francisco Bay Area. CAMBRIDGE FOLKS: I've got ... an AIDS Walk in Boston, and on the morning of the event, a bunch of us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early ... posting anything over the last couple of weeks! Don't worry, a happy entry

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... of amazing minds that are truly changing the way that we see the mind ... few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... , so here’s a story about the one time when Bevi brought a glimmer of joy ... from last summer were more along the lines of “Woah, I can dispense water

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and half of me was focused on the construction going on in Killian Court

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to ... the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  . Concourse offers small classes in the math and science GIRs as well as small ... the meaning of human nature, the basis and character of morality, the necessary conditions for liberty, the proper role of science, and the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I ... mentioned one of the 4.301 projects in his blog. Knowing that these were

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... at one in the morning in East Coast weather after having spent twenty ... locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the ... There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011