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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... planned with our winter coats. We would knock on her door and she would pretend to be all surprised for trick-or-treaters and she’d hand each of us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions ... application. All of the supplements and portfolios are not required in any way ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  intersection of technology and social change. My thesis was on user ... seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my ... the process of teaching, you learn more about your stuff, and how others

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture ... time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  . You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who ... ." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. (www.newenglandliving.org) And

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  sets of users and servers. The normal realm here on campus is the ATHENA ... virtual machines, and all of the virtual machines on one server froze ... Kerberos and AFS. Kerberos, named after the three-headed dog guard of Hades

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to ... -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper ... pick up that terribly heavy pile of dirty clothes in your room and lug it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  Admissions has been deluged with calls and emails from students who ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  jumble of sounds that only I would have any reason for using or even dare ... breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared ... ’ve been through a number of different majors but I’ve finally settled on

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  was born and raised in Columbia, MO – home of the Mizzou Tigers ... of being back and Matt McGann and Chris Peterson have already called me ... of the sirens and seeing the Boston skyline out of my window was a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... there's just unstructured tomfoolery occurring on MIT's campus. And today ... again, and ran back out into the middle of the road, plying passerby with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  even sometimes sad being on the other side of CPW. I knew that it would ... me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... were affected by yesterday's events, and I hope that we can come out of

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

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I ... electronics will find parts of it boring, and those of you that don't will find ... instructor said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that "all of electronics can be

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  themselves. I'm standing on top of Sam Adams!!! I feel like I'm meeting a celebrity!!! On the FPOP, we got to visit the graves of many Founding Fathers ... curling (played with a block of ice and some mops), a silly-string face

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  assembled and ready to take on one of the most notoriously demanding classes ... research projects we would be working on for the rest of the semester. It ... amount of people have asked me this."]simulating a concussion[/annotation] and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  . We got to our goal faster than any of us expected, and spent the rest ... strategies, designating some people to squares, and others to numbers. I was on ... out of chalk faster than free food disappears on campus. Still, we kept

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  the pond to explore the secrets of the old colonies and whatnot. I must ... understand and welcome us. Some of them even brought us some terrific whopping rashers of bacon that were simply splendid. We packed our kit and started

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... , on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit ... nice on multiple levels to spend some of dead week just hanging out with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to ... , underrepresented students of color, and students from less financial capital all face ... students apply to MIT because of its reputation, and I strongly believe a

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  probably focused on getting into college, and much of your life may have been ... of the biggest perks about getting accepted early is also getting on ... longing for the “chill and settled” state-of-mind SSSs had since say

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009