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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  . If you ever want a brilliant critical review of the first 10 minutes ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... -saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter ... from the semester. And I was alone. My roommate left the Saturday of finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those ... on the brightness of burning magnesium, a call for more systematic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right ... freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  the time of our first rejection from one of those 3, we decided last ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Director of the Humans and Automation Lab, which hosts many Aero/Astro UROPs ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  questions, the first of which was: Having begun the reading, is the optional ... the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... define one. The maurer is a unit of awesomeness, equal to the awesomeness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  reviews from a whole variety of reviewers, including the Boston Globe and ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke ... Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company to land on the moon earlier this year. While their first attempt

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... store for the purpose of providing discounts. The three of us waited ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the ... of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past ... history of military training; indeed, the MIT charter specifies that the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... 1 and 3 AM. Weeeeee. But this past Wednesday was the first “final review” of the semester – which means everybody presents their design

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  ." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow was delivered to the front lawn of MIT Fraternity house Chi Phi on the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow ... the residents of Conner 2 (second floor of the Conner side of Burton ... one of its kitchens so that's where we got the snow for the majority of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008