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• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  took a boat ride on some rural canals and visited the Floating Market ... , but well worth the visit and time away from the office. I'm still catching up on email and various projects I'm behind on since returning from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  , waiting to be let back in. You can actually hear the Simmons fire alarm from ... that can be read across the river in Boston, or from my kitchen window ... alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  , some will be videos and some more standard posts depending on the subject ... figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing ... turn subtitles on, so just click the CC and just click English.

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  easily be mistaken for it. And the rest... Well, the rest is the work ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I ... I start each day to where I need to be. And I know that I really

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  be doing when we see a bar chart, and the effects of color on how we ... , and conference attendees can browse through the different displays to ... interesting, they can ask the author to explain the project, and you can have an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we ... Office. Be sure to include your name and date of birth. These can also come ... /TOEFL code is 3514, and our ACT code is 1858. Please use the same name on your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  glassblowing lab announces that they will be reopening in the fall, and have ... gather a glowing ball of clear glass on the end of my pipe and roll the ... can be improved. I can pick up frits of other colors and incorporate

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .662 Shaping the Future of Work, a blended online and on-campus course that ... engine and requires a pilot. The machine on the right is stealthy—its shape ... about the two countries’ perceptions of the event through time can be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... learn math and other things on the side. fortunately, i am much less burnt ... started working on cfish, and only last week did i finish the minimum viable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  line on hold, I placed the receiver on the counter and Hanna and I sang ... , put on your red shoes, and dance the blues. Every year by 1 AM, everyone ... When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  worth it to be in the presence of so many bright and thoughtful people on ... laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... seeing him on stage, it became clear that, even for all the reverence he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  lucky, and hopefully this answer will be the one your instructor intended ... has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  working, I quit being sad and got mad. I bought a new ticket (yes, on the ... was the last one with material that would be covered on the exam, but I ... and amongst tiny people on tiny buses. You know how I know, besides the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  being a total drain on the reputation of females everywhere, and then she ... (the details slip my mind, Mollie can correct me) and it's all very cute ... watched the show from first airing you'd notice how she didn't fit in and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... without the incredible people i've met along the way. and i know that can ... (!!) and always being my number one fan on twitter and beli random chats

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice ... Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  the desert landscape would be so familiar to me, even though on the ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  process and our “turning down the heat” on students, but also some ... looking at the whole student and their match with MIT. It will not be ... of applicants we have and the limited space on campus. And the fact

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016