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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the ... in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates ... the coveted 3k score within her first night of playing. [caption id ... -143. Cyan's records (and the best scores I've seen in person yet) are

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT ... recently graduated and is now working in the Cambridge area. We decided to ... ! First, we headed over to the U.S.S. Constitution. The U

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V-day cards signed by all the bloggers. This means that we sat down, faced an ... , and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try to field some questions here. Please remember that January 1 is the submission deadline for students applying for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  out two projects: (1) Sacha Yaku ("Jungle Water") The brainchild of Kendra Johnson '09, Sacha Yaku aims to empower the women of Santa Ana, Ecuador through the sale of their jewelry and ceramics. It is analogous to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  When the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the ... -relevant because, even though I found and applied for the internship myself, the fact

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  the waitlist. Thanks to some good yield prediction this year, using the ... decisions for the year, but there were at least a few more. Will we use the ... 'll once again look at where we are, and determine whether we will use the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  . The distribution of such prime numbers among all natural numbers does not follow any regular pattern, however the German mathematician G.F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... weekend was go down to the Hatch Shell on July 4th to see the Boston Pops's (right?) annual concert. Yes, he claims that the July 3rd dress rehearsal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask ... happen in the film. That’s right – after running several concurrent ... a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7 ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice problem, I would know the answer because I had done that question several

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  the college application process was over, all the complications in life ... regular 2-hour weekly meetings during the Fall term. Compared to Traditional ... congregates people who are interested in the subject or are interested in

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  compete against 130 other vehicles from universities across the country? If ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006