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• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  our football team is a true Division III team, and the players play for ... —rushing for 170 yards per game, attracting national attention—I just have to go ... he was a junior. As soon as I saw him, I went to the web for a look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  ,893.) Teachers often assumed a lot of us. They usually taught for those engineer ... mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th grade, I declared my ambition to one day run for a position on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants! We understand what a daunting task it is for school counselors to meet all of the different requirements for so many students and schools. We
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding ... else has to be inferred. Yet the subtle pressures the story applies to us ... . It seems like Ishiguro doesn’t hit hard for everyone, but I’d still say

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U.S

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  interactions with other people come either from us being friends or from them ... wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... : okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a ... , and he’s suggesting all these schemes for how he can turn the fishing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  apologized for admitting him. i said that he could have gone anywhere else and ... true for all of you: "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the ... necessary for this kind of reflection, of course, but i have personally found

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Prize "for extraordinary service to children." I was equally surprised to ... across the country for this event + children from Massachusetts ... called Side By Side: they've been rehearsing together every weekend for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  you to join us here at MIT. For those of you who haven’t made a ... When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... you know someone who had a clown for a neighbor. You know, if that ever

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  College in Massachusetts, and worked for the US government, travelling the ... , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track ... round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas. But after hiking for 4 months and having little contact with progress, change or technology, and being content (for the most part), I`m still

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  brass plated in the MIT Lab for Metallurgy. Just kidding! ('ll be here all ... played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most ... . The beaver is noted for his engineering and mechanical skills and habits

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... they are relatively uncommon. There's no set policy for all of MIT. On

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  ,” “frustrating,” and “draining.” For some of us though, JLab is one of the best ... is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

    place for us to meet up and hang out for a bit with Tetris on the side ... everyday life after playing the game for a while. I remember I had trouble ... posters for this movie called it “The game you couldn’t put down. The story

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I ... Experiences to enjoy outside of this box. I also have some options for the way I ... for the undergrad. ii. I started writing this blog in the fall, when

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  the excuses for trains we have in the US? [annotation note="answer: yes ... /or procrastinating. Just a few days ago, I beat my all-time record for cutting it close ... times. Luckily I’ve caught the culprits for this issue. With the simple

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  ; [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... of us never having seen the show before. It brought me a lot of comfort

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022