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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  -Alaska Pipeline, and my three-member group is already quite ambitious ("Let's do a ... struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as ... ! Based on a comment I got yesterday, there are still people working... and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom about a recently completed water-channel bridge in Germany. Isn't that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  Infinite, I heard a loud boom coming from Lobby 10. Upon closer inspection, I ... long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So ... , MISTI will be celebrating MISTI week. Right now, there's a lecture

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite ... motivations. Fun fact about yourself: I flew a jet (alongside a pilot) for about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben ... finally a meeting with a student group. And finally, after posting this ... (discussion of all five of my top-5 favorite classes in a future post). Even if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  smiled a lot, which is neither what you do in Denmark nor what you do in a ... ’t always do that — for example in a beginner class where we’d just learned ... Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  the dorm we really had no idea what to do with it so we just set it on a ... 's her with the red hair) "It's a fish! Hey, um, where do you think we ... The floor on which I live, Conner 2, has a large TV. A large broken

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  fun stuff was happening. I think the following pictures will do a good ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during the weekend along with a folder filled with papers about classes, Safe

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any ... Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your ... we have received a number of questions from prospective students who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  ) to think about how ESP as a whole was doing. 2018 And now back all ... I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... something fun to do — go through (approximately) the same week every year that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a completely different form from what J. Bell was doing. Basically, I run a bunch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  structured class? Am I just shying away from a challenge, or do I actually need ... My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  help but do give them a little time to respond. It’s not necessary for ... still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the ... be some distance away. In a case like this it’s great if you are able

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a ... the tracks a couple of days later; sure enough, there was this: And

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  February 15th. You may still submit a supplemental portfolio, but you do not ... (EA) applicants. There was a definitive resolution for those students ... to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

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

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  . There was a definitive resolution for those students who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  what I'll do, but right now I'm having a good time, so I'm just going to ... within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this semester, i started dancing on Kinematix, a Northeastern team, which means I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  myself: Do you feel better now? In a way, I did. This time was different ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  I wanted to do a youth high school exchange, and so at 15, I embarked ... : “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page” -St ... study abroad in college. The International Honors Program is a unique

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011