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• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  to the enduring spirit of the Institute, as if I were suddenly engulfed ... DID YOU KNOW? About 25% of my blog posts are partially written while ... days of MITblogs, circa 2006. Long before my time, Sam '07 would prelude

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by ... around, and I left that sleepless, exhilarating set of weekends with a song

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic deaths of four hardworking police officers in Dallas, it feels like America

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students and their families. As organizations, institutions, and individuals have ... public interest, the educational trajectories of our prospective students

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the ... ) Faneuil Hall is both a reminder of Boston’s glorious revolutionary past and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  doubt getting some sort of degree in Course 7 with her award ... managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something ... This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  terms of random and salvageable technology"]pretty large monitor ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough ... Scholars outside of the Metropolitan Opera     ...and before ... the Metropolitan Opera and explored the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ... the Institute's various LGBT student groups and support staff. More ... establishment of the Rainbow Lounge the MIT students, staff, faculty and guests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... moods, and this was one of those times -- but this one was definitely catalyzed by a sense of urgency: I was leaving MIT so soon, and I felt like I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty ... . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... taking a lot of classes over a wide variety of disciplines. These are known

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  technology can be a bad thing." We sit in tables of nine in groups of three ... classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017