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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... one entry. Over the next few days, I'll be sharing all of the 30-plus ... and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  months (after the first week of May until after the first week in July), so ... was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically ... good guide to making the most of it here. I also met Ashu, one of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... within its floor plans. W91 later saw the installation and later removal of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate ... , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... fun carrying two cans of paint down the cereal aisle of the supermarket

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  . But the AI is *horrific* and totally kills the realism of the whole ... next day. I'm pretty proud of the number of games I've spent time on ... slowly over the course of my life"]"using that time productively

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  . *Whatever, it came before the first course. If the nominal convention of ... tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... least five (5!) distinct brands of dried squid meat. By “we” in the last

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  gives me my first small task. steven explains one of the services that our ... consistently. i did a demo of a feature i added for the first time ever ... my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The same thing will happen with Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  long time. Michael Hartl wrote the first version of The Tau Manifesto for ... /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl ... around the circle) and diameter (length across the circle). The ratio of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... , that it seems as if we are all part of the progress. When there is an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does the Office of the First Year do?

  The Office of the First Year supports a number of programs that ... . The mission of the office is to provide excellent services and programs ... the academic success and personal development of undergraduates. Staff
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  early. For the first leg of the trip, I hitch a ride with my dad to his ... ride itself, which has become my favorite part of the whole thing. In the ... This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  the benefits and challenges of applying to MIT. This is the first ... at the College of Wooster. This is the first time for me in a dorm in a ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great ... by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my ... . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  " come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been ... ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and ... in Courage" Cast your vote now on the MIT Admissions Facebook page!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  , but our mistake—not the first of the day, not by a long shot ... per person, the first three individual, the fourth a combination of our ... terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  . gloria: I was in DesignPlus in my first year! It was the fall of 2022, the ... the 3rd floor of building N52), which includes a whole range of machines ... You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  , one of the first cities to open up to foreign investment in the 1980s ... and where I'll be heading off to again sooner or later. The first three ... (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011