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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Tube, Facebook, and smart phones and other mobile devices? How does MIT balance ... Engineering, and in Electrical/Electronics/Communications Engineering. So it was ... transition. How could someone give up heading a top academic department

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  [annotation note="Yes, my name is spelled with two 'i's because that's how it ... . That experience was quite chaotic, but it definitely convinced me how ... I think that Brandon knows everything about the subject as long as it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  knows it. Look at him, recoiling in horror at my long, long face. (In ... to go right now. Are you coming?" "...Sure!" Far be it for me to let ... 'm taking advantage of the long weekend; I look like I'm getting sick from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  let it out.  But — where does my climate go? My desert, already on the ... mountain range of saguaros. Sah-wah-rows. I am from Arizona, which means it’s ... days people have been complaining. I grew so convinced it was hot that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  name, but Norbert is just a cool name as it is). One thing I didn't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How ... just like a View-Master does. The screen actually displays two images

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  from just having done the long pitch all the way up. Nevertheless it was ... is one of the best parts of any long route like this. All in all, it ...   While it's easy to think and talk about the incredible

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  place. Placed in that context, how did it make me feel? Nothing, honestly ... girls". I think I was fourteen? It was summer. My hair was getting long ... then. It wasn't safe, then it wasn't that long, then I didn't have time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  Building.  That's because those nocturnal diurnal (what's the term for "does ... and it was totally awesome.  Makorra all the way, btw.) Anyways! As ... 't want to blog my chickens before they hatched. I GOT MY DREAM UROP! It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  things for god knows how long—someone more well-versed in EC history could ... struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... into a department once they've declared it? How easy is it to go about ... students, and is it destructive competition? What do students here do for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  my body. I felt empty, but I knew it wouldn’t be long before sorrow ... oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that ... moment for you to learn from and then, despite how hard it seems, move on

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  program in that it examines a thematic topic in multiple countries. The ... , but when I came to MIT, I wasn’t sure it would work out. It is always ... the Cambridge-MIT Exchange, which is a year-long direct exchange program

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to ... Physics , I'm struck by how much this place seems like an academic ivory ... write, even if its only a page a week. Right now I'm working on a piece

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  but unchallenged values, I think what it does is it gives you some time ... This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... does a number do when it wants to be a picture?" - Dan Dietz ... fact, theatre has helped me become a much more effective engineer. How

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  this in full and didn't realize how 1) long it was and 2) how many adult jokes there are in it and 3) how clever it was?? yes we watched the ... looms, and Hogwarts may never be the same again. i forgot how long this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  situation anyone in our family encounters. 1. Get psyched. 2. Stay with it. 3. Do whatever it takes. I think this is superb advice. My advice is a ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  . I remember how hard it was to be a freshman, so I'm just grateful that ... information. It's super arduous and long, but hopefully very worth it when ... think it's really important to show all these different facets to an MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  attention it does come through and is pleasant, if light. Chocolate Hazelnut ... worse -- sweeter, more artificial in texture and flavor. It does look ... as a treat that you could bake, but it does not really make sense as a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped ... . I thought: "That snake is at least six feet long." I thought: "I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013