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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  This morning, MIT alum Adam Riess '92 won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Adam Riess, MIT Class of 1992, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011 Riess, who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  . This got me thinking: what would a success profile for an MIT student look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... be experiencing MIT for yourselves this spring, whether for the first

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk ... correctly: live action anime. It is being put on by the MIT Dance Theater Ensemble and is directed by MIT Theater Arts Professor Tommy De

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  revived recently about classes that changed peoples' lives. Granted, this is ... taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... of time on it though." "Personal answer is definitely 11.011 or 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  'm back at MIT, and there is a new little kitten hopping about. Everything ... Game of Thrones. The little kitten is so cute! She jumps all around and climbs on cages and pokes her head through small holes and is so curious

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  , who is a more educated but less devout Kelly Clarkson fan than I am. The weather at MIT has been delicious the past week or so. My friends ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  River is awesome, and the fact that MIT is right on the riverfront ... school: Troy High SchoolCollege: MIT '05, BiologyFavorite thing about MIT: The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  friends are in a band at MIT that is affectionately known as Love and a Sandwich. They are new on the MIT scene but their sound is phenomenal ... dance and joined MochaMovesDanceSquad. Mocha Moves is an MIT dance crew

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that ... though the KerMIT is overall a benevolent figure, its mischievous nature ... " – Anonymous MIT student #1405 #6 - Kendall Cube Kendall Square is an area that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  this semester to convince myself that quantum physics is real. 6.2410 is ... ="aligncenter" width="640"] This thing costs as much as many of the tools in MIT ... working with quantum optics is that experiments are unbelievably sensitive

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  information and RSVP if requested. There is a whole MIT community that cannot ... Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT, and now that I have emerged from my first season of reading MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being ... the MIT essays: This year's prompts and some advice from Petey

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Flowers student to attend MIT, thanks to scholarships Student ... ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  are blocked off for athletics: from 5 to 7. It's great that MIT is so ... Friday night was Burton 3rd's "Anything But Clothes" party, which is ... -clothing-really-cool-all-purpose material is there? I know! Zip ties! (I spent about 5 minutes on the duct

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... recently completed one, which I finished a month ago is also multipurpose ... .   Diagrams and Technical drawings If I had to pick, this is my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  : Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic Arts Sponsored by MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures, the MIT Contemporary French Studies Fund, MIT Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies Wednesday, October 4 7pm

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  your dreams!" An ambitious mission, no? This description is almost ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  is home. I wanted to come to the MIT fly-in program because I wanted to ... environment like the MIT campus.” – Aden G., Tennessee “My hometown is a rural ... From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025