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• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  public eye for now. When I read through all the HASS classes to pick one ... for the coming semester. [annotation note="Relative to the MIT students ... Campus for housing, I'm not on a meal plan and have to consistently buy

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for ... Laboratory - is an architecture project laboratory that explores how to ... - designed to serve as a starting point for students with big ideas (or small

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  for hours gushing about how badly I wanted to write for it. At least I ... has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... backburner until i have to actually have to make the decision, waiting for more ... have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole ... bullet going through an apple? We have Doc to thank for that. He developed ... just goes to show you how cool he was. To fully appreciate this story

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do. Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... plan to enjoy a Happy Blogiversary celebratory bubble tea. Thank you for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  any programs for parents, or is this weekend geared to convincing ... four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... 2: Is there a standardized definition for "best match" to MIT? What is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  interpretation of a given individual and how applicable it may be to them.  I ... information in order to make a decision, but there is no substitute for ... , desires and objectives. Just a little food for thought, as the time to make

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  Harvard. The answer is yes. People usually go to Harvard for language ... have no choice but to drive. I happen to hate driving for more reasons ... consider how important location is to you, and possibly how important it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise ... for people. I must care for myself too, and that is easy to forget when ... brace for impact and hope for the best. You have to fall with them a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... pastries just waiting to be injected with ice cream! They opened the store in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel free to invite their friends and classmates. This year, we cooked for ... should go to them. I am so thankful for them and they are what made it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  least for now -- "How to Succeed at the MIT Mystery Hunt by Being Really ... :40am: I'm about to head to Lobby 7 for the Kickoff... we'll see what this ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  make sense. I began to understand how the different theories for ... learn how to ride them. Then I did the same for the other concepts, making ... and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of ... , from how it emphasized research to how it started kids so young. He saw ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  't have to wait for a machine. A view from outside (it's distorted ... This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... 'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during ... ", this class focuses on how materials behave when you load them to failure ... able to predict how and when things will fail based on the materials

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  change I accepted, even grew to love, for a time. Even at a Freshman ... time down from nearly 11 minutes to just under 7. "How would I do that ... compelled to do it all over - again - for the next day of training. That day

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012