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• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  hard or stressful; certainly, MIT's rigorous curriculum will lead to some ... related. Usually, it is related to personal problems or preexisting mental ... in undergraduates. More often, suicide is precipitated by family or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  to say about the struggle for racial justice in America today, they ... . Whether you see yourself in their words, or learn something about how other ... virtual vigil. As the announcement for the vigil read: We gather in the wake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out resulting in being kicked out or disowned or worse.  My coming out ... -American heritage often have to come out “in actions rather than words.” When I’m at ... . Not at all. My dad doesn’t believe in science, or educated people, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... convention to be held in Florida in June. What do you do at MIT? Like I said ... , to be Henry's student in the Comparative Media Studies program. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my ... can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert ... summer, where she gets to "work from home" one day a week and sit in her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college ... channel. In order to help people find language partners, the LCE has a ... interests to you, and get in touch with people open to hanging out and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... time in years to see what I wrote, and wow I still love science bowl just ... competition that middle schools could compete in to qualify for Nationals. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at ... Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a ... when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  takeoff is a good place to start with a disclaimer: my father was in control ... frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents ... really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear ... never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... ="emails sent to all dorms"] dormspam,[/annotation] emails that were flooding in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  missing that Oregon Trail thing, as if I asked him to his own semiformal or ... to joke about engineering in ways that no one else understood. One time ... scores, so the group asked us to do it in our heads, claiming that we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  , hanging out on campus, talking about my MIT experience, or reacting to the ... conversation and allowed us to meet someone!  Kyle: I’ve been recognized in ... excited to be in vlogs. It was just really cute. Shawn: I went playing golf

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the ... know much about what I'm supposed to do there. I arrive in Heathrow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a picture book or a graphic novel or something in that nature started ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... adventure begins. Leg 2 (The Trinity) Prague to Moscow, Kiev or Istanbul The ... will be in the Ulaan Baatar area, all that will remain will be to sit

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... that the bike wasn't going to fall. In fact, it looked pretty cool up ... the space in the room, which meant we had very little room to maneuver

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... screaming or shaky cinematography can quite do justice to it. (Nor can any ... balls in a lecture hall. "It's considered bad form to aim at your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013