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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  to do, and as a result I realized that there is no way in Hell that I ... that is my superhero origin story. Anyway, I had a really, really ... ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  this is all cope. Like, maybe I got a B in that one class because I ... particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song ... too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle (and actually like a 17 min walk from Next House which is the furthest ... , which is honestly crazy. I'm not a calorie counter at all but these cones

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... is a college campus where events and famous people will often come to you. The reason I’m off campus is actually for a class that’s part of

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Taiwanese Students in my inbox a couple weeks ago: Cooking workshop. Oh, yeah ... Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... created in 1929, the ring's official name is the "Standard Technology Ring ... story. In 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  Adelaide!) A caution cape is also exactly what it sounds like: At the party ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school ... informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world ... about college applications. Your health and happiness is in our hearts

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... dimples in the Charles let me know that it was still raining. I ate a ... picked it up and read a bit before my next class. Babel is a fantasy novel

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  again. In summary, here is a concise blurb of what I have to say to you ... to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  company is a really good fit for him personality-wise and in terms of his ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  in its place is a sense of accomplishment. Every year understanding a ... I took a picture today that pretty well reflects the mood around this place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in ... and Star in a classroom in Building 1, with Minh in her dorm, Mc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  didn't happen in a fancy board room or anything -- they held it in a ... D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a quote into an outline of a shape. That is probably the worst explanation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  have secured a room in the Institute for holding their rehearsals this ... having a room in the Institute itself are apparent, and these, together ... -century, Liepmann would put in motion a thriving music program at MIT, supported by

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... and design, which is what i'm planning on majoring in."]Course 4

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the ... with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  my interest in historical research. Fiction Workshop is a great class ... Overview of Past Semesters (there is a tl;dr below) Freshman fall: 8 ... learned a lot from the Latinx history class. In hindsight, however, I wish I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022