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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we ... have been quite exciting AKA lots of hard work! We scouted out our first ... prototypes the day before. We learned a lot about the difficulties that each of

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  . This afternoon was the first warm, sunny, beautiful day we've had here for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall ... . After exploring the Minuteman trail (including a statue of Uncle Sam; did

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee ... two days later, I had two packages of freshly made tortillas from the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to ... New York City! Michigan My first stop is Southeast Michigan - the place ... state of Michigan, Michigan has two peninsulas - the "upper peninsula

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  first week of May, the company I had an internship with informed me via a ... the feasibility of traveling to Israel. it said that we should expect to ... State Department travel warning was at level 3, the prospect of travel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity. For the ... some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... that might affect the plans of all of our students. Would many more

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... ”, 2)] After we submitted the lab, we thought about the power of this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  amounts of free time. Let's start off with the Center for Talent ... 's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes ... , check out Questbridge, which offers help with the costs of summer programs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  Admit Letters... Actually, this photo only shows about half of the admit letters, as overall there were 4 buckets of The Big Envelope. Speaking of ... last two classes, because of an increased yield (the percentage of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to complement the substance of our life experiences, or something equally

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... year, I stressed about grades, especially during the first quarter. I ... . Even under the graces of Pass No Record, I feel stressed out: it builds

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions ... some of the questions are pretty repetitive so it kinda feels like you ... The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, a botanical garden in Sweden. It's very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are ... boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  for ATS's first Dim Sum run of the year. Voila! A few t-stops on the ... blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... connoisseur of next week's problem sets. The next morning, my esteemed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  see the need to sugar-coat any of this. If this is your first time to ... absolutely zero of them. Shock, I know, one of the faces of the MIT Admissions ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it ... rest of RingComm, presented our designs for the 2020 brass rat! It was ... just collapsed out of exhaustion from the running/heavy box carrying

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions ... . This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts ... , Illinois, the DC area, Florida, and more. Complete list of MIT Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010