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• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  Year Residence Exchange) lottery. REX accounts for a healthy portion of ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  online now. Much of the content was relevant to the timeframe it was ... For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 ... Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... weeks ago, I flew home to California. If you've read any of my past ... worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  bloggers' accounts of their summer activities this year, and plans to add ... From The New York Times (check out the awesome photo of Paul, Jess ... fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've done a lot more running, I've read a lot of accounts from legitimate ... bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  documents completed and/or transmitted online) to recent COVID ... and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  chill. Without going into the details of the research project, the ... goal. It's a mix of formation control and neural networks within the field of autonomous robot systems. [caption id="attachment_90091" align

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  morning further of whatever charms it used to have. By every account, this ... -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of ... that some of them are so very final. Earlier this year, a friend of mine ... planning on it, before the pandemic hit. One of the big reasons that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  blogosphere. We give first-hand stories and accounts of forays on this landscape ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few minutes talking about how scientists' perception of outreach is changing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  -figure-advanced, award-winning book of short stories, Drown—by most accounts the first ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  looking for somewhere car-accessible on account of the driving rain. The ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... situations this theme of realizing that a past self had been naïvely idealistic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students ... public interest, the educational trajectories of our prospective students ... moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020