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• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... , not in anticipation of a meaningful answer. More so, we’re inclined to ... failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the ... I have known for some time that my approach to things can be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... took our class to Boxaroo (an escape room in Boston founded by MIT Alums

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  I don't have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to give this here blog a new outfit for the new year. What do you think about the new look? Should I keep it like this or go back to the old

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  . You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B ... compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hello, after six years

  

  questions i am still learning to hold in my heart. i am also trying to think ... we have with each other. we live in a world with lots of ways to talk ... . i am trying to return to school now so i can think more about this, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  luck, it was cancelled and I had to stand in a line with 300 other people ... I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became ... foundational thread in my journey that lead me to reflect on my impact in the ... Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  -related parenting advice you'd give to your own parents if you could go back in time? [Edit: in other words, I want my kids to be as close as possible as they ... decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really ... of the Opera live, and Garden State in the theaters. We also got to go ... your advisor has been to some of the best restaurants in Boston and loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... here, at MIT, on September 17th 2011! Our office worked hard in order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• FAQ / Interview

  Do alumni conduct interviews?

  MIT's Alumni Association is involved with everything MIT—from providing admission interviews all over the world, to sharing in commencement ... most diverse, talented, and invigorating communities in the world.
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to ... lists, but one of them ranked the top 20 metropolitan areas in the United

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to Laura, Jess, Snively, and Shannon. He majored in Materials Science and ... blog readership will be excited to learn this fact. Adam Helfant, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  ). In reality, only one college (King's) manages to do it every day, but ... day but to different music. In fact, most of our job is constantly ... special things that I would never get to do in America (you've already heard

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  with scientists in Chile, Arizona, and Hawaii (if you want to travel to ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own ... to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006