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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  of rape and sex abuse. By listening to what they say about how the ... undecided, my family was close, and how could I be loyal to any other football ... 'd like people to know just how deeply this affects us. I'm near tears

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... is working together with farmers and credit union members to build

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  together last term. We get along great now (or know how to fake it with ... turned out to be apple blossom petals. Last week was Bumps week, which is ... behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken ... shows how the result travels up the chain of command to you. Each group ... challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  was thinking about how to diversify their class by race, income level ... nonsense. Many people have many different metaphors to describe how the ... admissions counselor fashion - I'm going to use this last pulpit opportunity

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  similar to cloud computing? Think of your laptop. How many hours a day do ... the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never fully realized how dominated the city is by MIT until a large fraction of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ...   To the things that other people say to me when they probably meant

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  .100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  manipulate time:   Unfortunately, I have not yet worked out how to add ... On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  no idea how in the world senior year happened. This recently came to my ... to DO things, but writing is difficult. So, I have decided to write ... graduate school applications amidst the back to school drill. For my survival

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

    Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  Congratulations, universe. You've managed to put me into another... unique situation that is mildly difficult to explain. "Hey Connie, what are you doing ... -- in SOMA, to be exact. Doing some design stuff." "Oh, cool! What are

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves ... know how many times I got recognized during that weekend? Zero. Once ... personally can't stand Guy Fieri), so they (read: Dad) begged to have lunch at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... emailed me, "i cannot imagine how difficult comparing 17000 applicants ... me introduce to you our new bloggers! Class of 2015: 

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished ... has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011