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• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  ; A fountain at the entrance of the Watergate building, my first day at ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... of the Watergate building beneath a white ledge textured with cracks

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  May 25, 2006

  

  Today marks my ten-year anniversary of train travel. I also just finished my first year of college. Time doesn't fly.

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but ... called Revit. To get a grasp of it, on the first day of class, our ... draw a Mohr Circle, and the beauty of making assumptions in engineering

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  thinking about, and where the time I put in materialized in the form of cool ... went into them. And now for the plug… Sure, I did a lot of science ... to enter, and just some of the awesome prizes include: • A trip to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  you aren't alone! Lots of students have the same questions you do ... deadline. Please allow 10-14 days for the processing of all submitted ... the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to follow the progress of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the ... sleep by 2 am (even if most of the students were still up doing an 18.03 p ... booth. Speaking of the visual arts center, we passed by the building with

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  .com transcript of the Q & A with Dean Marilee Jones: Ever since she first joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ... admissions landscape. The Dean of Admissions since 1997, Jones has used her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... NJ. The Central Jersey meeting went well that night; nothing out of the ... of my childhood on the Jersey shore. The people in New Jersey are some

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... felt relieved, though, to have gotten through the first segment of the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... lots of East African classics in line with my project theme which was the timeline of East African music in the past half-century or so. This was the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  challenges and attend my first event of Bad Ideas, the Craigslist Scavenger ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a strange object was placed on the facade of lobby 7. I'm not really sure

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... the sense of overwhelming relief. MIT has been home, sure, but it doesn ... pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... at the beginning of July. They gave me an estimated repair time of two ... aware of this as the modeling software Solidworks only works for PC

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... principles of design: rhythm, scale, proportion. We watched the Eames Classic

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... , which was sort of interesting.) I showed the outfit to Adelaide, and she ... the athlete's point of view. As I said, I rarely eat in the dining

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  beautiful afternoon. Last Friday marked the end of my first full week of ... These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... the 100s of emails advertising activities at MIT have mentioned free

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  after the first year!" but then I remembered that particular piece of ... sort of assumed it, and so did I. By the end of my freshman year, I ... sort of interdisciplinary field (neuroscience, for the record, is pretty

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... staff in Anaikatti, I also got a chance to interact with some of the ... complete their homework and excel in their classes. I visited two of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011