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• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time ... because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  's not shall lose... God bless the child that's got his own." If knowledge ... populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong ... you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... on the road again for my Admissions World Tour 2004. Well, maybe not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch ... hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  The Early Action deadline is fast approaching -- it is this Sunday ... really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic ... answered, though, I am more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a summary of the event. ____________________________________ At 12 years old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was ... 're lucky, all the classes that you want to take might fall on the same two or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  there are tens of other resources out there for the general process (notably the housing website) I’ll summarize the experience briefly. After ... the different dorms on campus. If you officially decide to come here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  What's that? You think the celebrations ended with the Toast to Tech ... -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  (Materials Science and Engineering) and an MSIII cadet in the Army ROTC program ... are in the program. You can do the minimum 3 times per week PT (physical ... ventures out into the field where we sleep under the stars at night (or under

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  your face. Me, an MIT student? The concept was practically unthinkable ... accomplishments, whenever I thought about applying to MIT, I kept coming back to the ... know the answer to that question. All I know is that I'm here now, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you[/annotation] that we have extended the Regular Action deadline from January 1st to ... ; January 6th is simply the new deadline for everyone applying during this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  This blog is to all the '14's, '15s, '16s+ who are scared after watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as faithfully published here on the blogs by CJ, started freshman fall, when I explored traditional dishes from around the world; and continued through my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I’m starting this off with the how-to guide. All that other content is down below

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange--it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the ... what subject you are studying. I went through Course 18, to study the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that, despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007