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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  year, at the start of my admissions blogging in the spring and throughout ... of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... see another theme of the semester taking shape, or at least an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  everything, I picked a spot at the back corner of the room. Right at noon, the ... minutes later, I found myself holding my weights at a 90 degree angle to my ... room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  Lord, dean of admissions at Haverford College, which posted student ... Jones, the former director of communications at M.I.T.'s admissions office, began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented ... students free of charge.  
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  presentation at a client site in front of an executive panel in two weeks. Throw ... seem to pop up out of nowhere. No kidding. Inbox currently at over 51k ... -and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  stretched infinitely downward. He was bent over it, staring at the face of ... at the beginning of his time, trembling so hard the part of him that ... at the speed of helicopter blades to absolutely nothing at all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  excited to run into. Many of the walls at the Broad are clear glass, and I ... then graded by the TAs. I hung out with some of the bloggers at Chris P ... tired of reading and go to yoga at Prana Power Yoga, which is a six

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 ... for them. Congratulations to the Class of 2018. May the wind be ever at ... ; The commencement stage at dawn   flowers of MIT  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree ... Students are non-degree students who take classes at MIT. You will apply ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time ... expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree ... Hi! At CPW, some students in Macgregor were telling me that a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... I ensure that I've made the best out of my four years at MIT? Will I ... dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  have all the information at the same time. Or the amount of information cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... write this entry, but I thought you guys deserved at least an update, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... good ol’ fashioned car bash? At this rush event, people from all walks of ... completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016