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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get ... problems you see.” Matt Damon would travel far away from Boston get a look at ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  comical image. Upon closer examination, you can see that the image also ... look more demonic than enlightened—you can see that the artist understood ... to the public. Thanks to the Visualising Japan project, you can now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  !! You can listen to WMBR @ 88.1FM on the radio in the greater Boston area ... course, Porcelain Cow. [Full show schedule with descriptions here!] You can ... , because you get to see all kinds of people that you didn't even know were a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  below 7.0 and we didn't have buffers, we'd die. As you can tell, both ... /high-schooler, you should get your science administrator to check out this page, so we can visit YOU next year. And if you're curious, you can check out the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  a MIT frosh? You can always spam However you want But just remember ... -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get ... same realization for a fraction of a second. As you can probably see ... office--you really do an excellent job--but I think I just came up with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  couldn't tell you when this phase began or when it ended, but i can tell ... add songs to this playlist. feel free to add some yourselves if you feel ... remind me of my SO :) slow dance - slow, cute songs that i can whip out if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... president at her high school. In her position, she coordinated a canned food ... serving the community - entire communities can pitch in, too. "I grasped the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... polymers that can kill cancer cells. Berry may not know the exact ingredients ... innumerable opportunities since “everyone knows that you have earned your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  points out, where else can you teach at the #1 program in Computer Science ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical ... evidenced by the fact that a colony of genetically identical bacteria can be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  senior staff (i.e. not me) so I can't give you an exact answer, but you ... will certainly help you. I can't give you an exact number because it ... should report any AIME scores to us - they can never hurt you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  as a collection of significant places Mitali frequented. I hope you ... feeling well rested, getting a delicious homemade meal, or listening to my ... : there’s always time to watch the sunset I can’t remember the first time I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three hours behind Washington, where I work). I'd get breakfast at around 7 or 8 ... house you can see my reaction to bo burnham inside in this blogpost we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  how do you tell the difference? You can't really. It's a lot of feel and ... A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you ... , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music ... (“Hey, baby, can I be your derivative?”) won't be as successful in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  know you, as much as one can know another person mediated through essays ... were often unintentionally memorable. I explain that you shouldn’t try to be memorable in your college essays; you should try to be knowable. In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  , they’d get into the meat of the hour. You were given one or more ... that follows is about as high-level as I can get, but hopefully it paints ... , spread across the bed, and playing some Taylor Swift music, trying to get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  even broader. If I can get into some of the top schools in the nation ... made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the ... you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025