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• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... Hockfield recently wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled A Model For ... do care. We should, too, by investing in a secure and clean energy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by ... was a good target for being changed because, in truth, I was only on the track that I was on when I came in, by default, and it wasn't a lifestyle

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... is actually a really exciting opportunity. To my knowledge, there has

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1 ... first real safari. 3) Spent A LOT of time in lab 4) Organized a ... to get my Brass Rat 12) Unknowingly ended up in a private Sting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest ... insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to ... in, about what kind of company culture I like (hint: Google is awesome

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  to 2005. Here it is used again in a rather informative 2006 blog post ... been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Kevin Gillespie and J.R. Hildebrand. In 1997-98, a student named Kevin Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a ... what I know a lot about is math. I almost wrote one of my MIT essays

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn ... 'm stressed out, I have a tendency to hold my breathe in. Until either my list

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey ... art. The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is like a free outdoor museum exhibit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  's education at MIT is worth nearly $200,000. He's considering a double major in ... Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... years ago from a refugee camp after being forced to flee his home in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite ... public policy class (in my major), an accounting class (in Sloan), and a ... Kissick, who conduct the course in a discussion format. As moderators, they

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... thinkers alike. It is a conglomerate of undergraduates and graduate students ... painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... cool project. In my advising seminar last year (6.070 - it's a great ... 'm working with in my banner photo, because that actually happens to be a

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

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  hello this is a blog. right now. rrahhhhhhhhhh i wrote this blog ... how their spelled, kind of like a half finished hangman game. Problem is, I forget what the name IS, i just remember the letters in it. So an

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  note="kevin is a frosh in 2E - my hall - and is a precious boy. in fact ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof jacket and a waterproof backpack this year, so rain is something i no

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  work and the semester had barely even started. In some ways this is a ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  describe it, other than that you can put it in a Venn Diagram with my other ... 's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... , if you haven't read my bio) is an agricultural state. I knew a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  in high school, teenagers at a playground designed for 8-year-olds is ... safety is a huge thing in the US. Not so much in Europe. So the playground ... hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006