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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of terrible things at me, and the only way I could find myself reacting was by ... step at a time, with a lot of help and a lot of strength. And one of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... fellow student the other day about MIT and she commented that IHTFP

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... chamber with some microphones and a tweeter with some tanks of various gases ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and Notes Form. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... .mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu ... . BUT NO LONGER! Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to witness the Blogs ... him a happy birthday because he is basically the greatest kid ever and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  many different types (and amounts) of essay questions, ranging from the ... responses, and b) minimize the amount of stress they cause the applicant to ... next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  language barrier and recalls discovering the power of non ... for the future, and providing a method of income generation.” Alia also ... travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  34 years? ...and the best part of this adventure was that it was ... Meyer-Rochow of Bremen, Germany found out and won the Ig Nobel prize in ... the stage (sometimes during the speeches of actual Nobel Laureates) and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  aren't Mexico and the theme of places that are Mexico. I just reread the ... cars to the other side of the Gagamobile and started ducking through the ... culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... @MIT chose the latter option, and they were awarded the grand prize of $25 ... . Matt Zedler, a senior in Mechanical Engineering and one of the project

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively ... the door of her cadillac, I step in back, and we're gone. She turns me ... : I love the tone of this poem. It's intimate, and soft-spoken, yet

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• 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 Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring ... Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about ... , altered some of the sound levels and color balances, and uploaded the grainy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  status, and I'm just sending pictures of my office. Matt and Ben are doing a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  't know, and, because of the number of people (and scarcity of time), I didn ... ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public: The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... if you are still interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  President Susan Hockfield

  

    To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A ... for Susan Hockfield   To all members of the MIT community:   ... Hockfield on her first day as president of MIT.   Monday, December 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005