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• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the ... positioned them on stage. According to the program, they were accompanied by ... various communities of the world who need MIT and whose voices call out to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation ... like week 3 to share some neat things I learned this semester and share ... . That’s why I dropped to [annotation note="Physics 1 Long"]8.01L

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please."]IAP[/annotation] period and decided he wanted to make an automated nerf turret. Here is how ... on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me ... asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  ’re me, [annotation note="not that you need quiz bowl experience to enjoy ... group dedicated to this site[/caption] I should probably use Wikipedia as ... to this. For example, did you know that [annotation note="btw i

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at ... -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three ... footwork i was used to, so i thought about my form. two right turns. keep my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  Admissions Counselor at MIT - providing information sessions to on ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day-to ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit ... subjective rankings and even the information provided is subject to what I ... to put these alphabetically, because Barker is SO GOOD that it's rude

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... Bylinskii, helped organize. Speakers talked about methods to approximate where

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  -Hellenic Council, Inc. ( NPHC also referred to as "The Divine 9") and the National ... research endeavoring to save lives. The AKAs & Deltas participate in Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... vegetable with Hausdorff dimension greater than 2.33. Thanks to their high

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009