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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  (and also to give my advisor a minor heart attack).  One of these classes ... part was that my limerick was selected as one of the highlights, and we ... , where students are split up into groups of 5 and given a budget of ~$700

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... of what they did, and then they were placed in the same environment as ... ’t make progress on difficult problems so we pick easier career paths and in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental ... House. Ran into: Ariadne, Curtis, Phil, Kris, and The Entire Class of 2010 on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  the city today, and I was proud of myself to discover that I actually ... and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent marks and such in plain text, and this makes me so, so happy. Umm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  which Africa has influenced art of all kinds and, with this influence ... Students' Union, the MIT Caribbean Club, and the MIT chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, celebrates Black history as American history and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the film "Fantastic Four" (it got a "thumbs down"), and one plot point caught my eye: When Jessica Alba first appears on screen, introduced as Sue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... for 20 minutes and sit down for six hours" kind of deal. in terms of a ... , it helped me discover and focus on the things that make me feel like a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  windows, pulling on a man’s green smock and floppy leather gloves. You ... foot pedal. Press down and electricity will flow. When you turn on the ... warm palms. You lean over the dragon, checking on the growth of his

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the ... with them to help navigate the academic, personal and social aspect of ... the future of DACA and, as a result, understandable concern for our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... rationalize gravity on the quantum level, and thus finish the standard model a ... .S. in light of the dwindling time we have left here on Earth, I propose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  this up to one of my housemates, Josh, who was on the winning 2003 ... , in fact, there was an O'Reilly puzzle of sorts, and it was one of the ... , keep factoring those large numbers, and never lose sight of what's truly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on ... ending, fall in love with a priest, and be inspired to write more of my own work. McCann’s books contained sentences of one word and sentences of 40

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  blow to the wallet) of an on-campus grocery store. With LaVerde's closure, the bustling grocery store on the first floor of the Stud turned ... hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of ... . [annotation note="And try their highest level of spice."][/annotation] To my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  into a routine at MIT. Psets due every week on Tuesday and Thursday ... always had time to do X and Y and then pile on Z. But, MIT has so many ... starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... stomach). And for those of you who have completed your applications, you ... is completely optional): "On a separate sheet, show us and/or tell us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and ... of fish on top) and ever since I discovered this in Japan a few years ... through an announcement on the LCD screens, and sometimes it's actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered 499 students a place on the waiting list. Decisions (and, for admitted ... record number for us and a 9% increase over last year. We admitted 1533

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  down the hallways taking note of club meetings, where they were, and what ... topic later, FYI), as a lot of sisters are involved with it, and knew I ... world to MIT and keynote speakers such as Henrietta Fore (Administrator of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  )[/caption] Gisel was an integral member of our team and our mission; our work over ... wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to ... conscientiousness, and her years of selfless service and warm friendship to her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020