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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students gave a presentation on the best Mexican restaurants in Boston, and in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of ... ), and this mentality is what landed me in Taiwan instead of MIT three ... devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... , so it's just a reminder of how close rush is. it's exciting, of course

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to graduate school; it is not a second chance at being at MIT, but it ... spread in different places, with no one place to call home, and that is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  profile Mollie in the latest episode (or, webisode, as it is a web series ... in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... , she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... . There is one employee who also only graduated about a year ago. Not only

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit, bundled in three layers of pajamas resembling a plaid-colored icicle, on the ... skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... . Maybe this is why internet culture in the US cares so much about random ... note="cj: a first-year advising seminar is a class that some first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has ... , "this is not a craigslist proposition," just to be clear. Mitra ... : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... the same reasons TNC did in his post: because it's a shocking reminder

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this exact same place in this exact same moment feeling exactly whatever it is ... 're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts of cool things: one of my floormates is studying abroad in Madrid, another is implementing a project in the Philippines, and yet another is in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  without a way to recover my saved passwords in firefox (my partially ... 've finally succeeded in hacking my own account, which presents a strange ... here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  Being a student at MIT can sometimes feel like drinking from a fire hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  a career in art. SP.785, or Digital Video Post Production, is a small ... easier. I figured MIT was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should ... -world equivalent to an Athena cluster. The class is conducted as a discussion of film

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first year. Earlier in the fall, the Tech published a fascinating history of ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous ... Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six ... open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! The bloggers' holiday pic.

  

  Just a quick note to say happy holidays from all of us to all of you. We hope your vacations are fun and safe, and that your 2006 is super. :-) P.S. All questions to date have been answered in the previous entry...

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... that because this is a personal instinct and not one that is in any way

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  occurred. This party is typically a huge affair that thousands of dollars go ... takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft ... orange and black banners, a speaker system, fireworks, and "DTYD" in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020