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• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  January 6th, 2021. If you plan to apply to MIT for Regular Action, you do not need to do anything special to request or claim this extension ... holidays this season must find new ways to do so safely while still spending

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  ALBUM IS SO GOOD. DO NOT CHALLENGE MY WORD.) I just ate a sandwich and a ... when I go "OMG BRAINS." This gives me perspective o' plenty, similar to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... later. I plan on doing the same with grad school apps; I'm going to put my

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... Frank "The Stata Center" O. Gehry and that all the toilets will be molded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... pitch-black darkness until accidentally crossing the Do-Not-Cross line ... in kindergarten that I could do anything if I tried, so I ignored

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... at MIT. if i could do MIT over again, i think i would have been a hass

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... were modeled after European cities with islands such as the Ile de Cite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  ! tell me about your research.") and asked Neil deGrasse Tyson a question ... crazy and do lots of work in exotic places during Independent Activities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  ://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1226150-1,00.html Yet another article de-emphasizing the ... students and hear about what they study, do for fun, and love (or hate) about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  . And order I did. Pizza de Quattro Formaggi Translation: Four Cheese ... . Moral of the story: Lose 10 Euros. Do not pass go. After the

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  play in the band.</p> <p><img src="http://web.mit.edu/kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/o2ndEastMarBand_637x480.JPG" _cke_saved_src="http://web.mit.edu/kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/o ... ;p><img src="http://web.mit.edu/kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/o

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  my day gets a little variety. I generally do one or more of the following: (1) Med School Apps = O.O NEVER. ENDING. Seriously. There are

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  following equation: k = (o)(d) +/- (r)(s) where: k = a constant value of the team's actualized potential to be good o = the offense d = the ... and the defense, plus or minus the dice roll of Julian Edelman doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  the arts were not underappreciated. There was so much to do that I ... the span of an hour. o.o Anyways, the Dumpling Contest was fun although

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una ... sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite ... direction. We are only on chapter two of Crónica de una muerte anunciada and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... in Sweden, I realized what I had to do.  I called the artist, Jane ... sculpture. One painting that was was especially wonderful was Willem van de

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2007/books/36501/ Hope you're all doing well! mitra   Here's a ... ,9171,1655718,00.html Cordially Ysabel de León Assistant to Professor Diaz Here ... Ysabel de Leon Assistant to Professor Diaz Um, how hot is it to have your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next ... folks again this time to do some research on the payload (science ... noise, and in doing so calculate the photometric precision or resolution

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  LOLCODE-to-Python interpreter (when I'm motivated to do so/not hosed), and ... brainf***. It uses exactly 3 commands: O for moving the pointer forward, RE for adding 1 to the current memory location, and &O for printing the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  of the commute, but I do recall one thing: we drove through a really ... de Barcelona, a landmark statue. Early in the morning, we picked up the ... indulged in our food as we watched the waves crash around Niu de Ca l

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024