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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  words or phrases have been banned at the university.” Even so, it's pretty ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most prestigious universities to support it - at least in formal settings - is big

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  were anywhere else, they probably would have chuckled at the joke that I ... , to President Reif stopped by at one point or another to check up on our ... sections. Yet, it never got old, because I was amazed at how many people were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  students whose interviews have been waived are at no disadvantage). You are ... recognize that processing can take 2 weeks. You do not need to worry at this ... copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  committees for RA next spring. You are at no advantage nor disadvantage for ... at all in the months between getting deferred and March." Do this ... 've written them. Please note that at this point the deadline to schedule an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  Anniversary. So did students at MIT. On November 22, 2015, a Toy Story

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  26 years ago, Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled 26 years into the future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future from its past.         This morning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Public Policy, arguably the most useful Political Science class offered at ... their format is shocking after a year at MIT. It’s odd not to pset here ... con of such a lifestyle at MIT is loneliness. I am the only humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  that. There are 154 people reading the blogs at this very moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... much at MIT--I thought I was top notch at failing, but I leveled up and ... push us to our limits all at once. Coming out of all this, I wish to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  at the same time and have breakfast every day. Some things are still ... indignant at the lack of a consumerist Christmas in my newly American family ... and wrapped presents at Christmas and New Year’s and Old Russian

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... this have seen at least an episode of TDS and are familiar with its basic ... 's approach at an intellectual/theoretical level (the rhetorical mode of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  'm doing at Apple, for obvious reasons   ...which basically means that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  the admissions committees for RA next spring. You are at no advantage ... about MIT at all in the months between getting deferred and March."  Do ... 've written them. Please note that at this point the deadline to schedule an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  students whose interviews have been waived are at no disadvantage). You are ... recognize that processing can take 2 weeks. You do not need to worry at this ... copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been ... was hosted at the MIT Museum, catered (with zero waste, of course) by ... speakers. There were ~25 student pieces modeled at the show. After all the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  've had at MIT. you may be thinking that we just spent all semester gluing ... technology has to do with finding a solution that really, truly works for at ... justice at all to the wonderful resources at MIT that support assistive

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  it was! Something exciting constantly happens at MIT. The routine ... starry sky Professor Frebel made at the Las Campanas observatory in Chile. * Speaking of wonderful lectures, Noam Chomsky also came to talk at MIT, about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  /slept with my kitten until more meetings at 4pm. I was really tired. I slept ... made its way through our hall. Halloween at East Campus starts at ... pieces at friends is all it takes to make a terrible week a million times

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of ... Elon Musk at the MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, viewable here. We ... with *DELICIOUS* clam chowder at a *REALLY NICE* place, I had to leave my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  support. At least six different people reviewed my main college essay ... : not at MIT). Could it not work for me?.. On a more serious note, have a ... fact, meant to be. I’m at MIT now, and I’ve met more kindred spirits than

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014