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• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  these regions with much more immediately important things to worry about ... ="And, with accelerating climate change, they happen more often, and with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... that not only is the mechanical philosophy consistent with theology, but ... science and religion at odds with one another. Nor was this an idea that was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... interviews lined up. Some signed summer contracts with their UROPs. Others were ... with my father. I knew they had missed having me around and perhaps I had

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  be able to make plans for their college enrollment with as little ... to provide you with this information and closure as soon as we could ... looking to work with our community. Thank you for all the wonderful updates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... were interacting with each other from afar, and I started to learn very ... . And so with this mathematician's brain, I discovered Economics, or “the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  festivities, I joined up with Sandra G. '19 — studying abroad this term at ... the culture and language, meeting new people, even with the missed trains, wrong trains, struggles with communicating, directions

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  external) screaming. Overall though, I’m super happy with my schedule! Here’s each class with a summary, in haiku form: 2.671: Measurement and ... the end, we exited with the first women’s basketball conference title in

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your ... with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do this now to ... mymitpassword [at] mit [dot] edu with your full name and mailing address. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Planetary Sciences was organizing a viewing outside on Kresge with telescopes ... able to take pictures of the Sun with my phone camera. Still too much light. I fiddled around with the ISO and the aperture until I snapped a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving ...  people were unhappy with this decision. I freaked out a bit that day. I began ... phone interview with them. (Funny enough, they’re in MacGregor in the fall

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with ... in public, or playing with cats. It’s a very special place and the ... , which, you know, overflow with moneyed people who judge you based on what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  's do something about that. Tonight". So I got together with my friend ... homeless people in Boston this Thanksgiving. We partnered with a homeless ... . And we wanted to provide their 30 homeless youth with warm clothing for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  HASS. *** The week begins on a sleepy Monday with an 11 am discussion ... educational activities. Then Tuesday starts with a 10 am monstrously early ... lectures with an excellent professor and engaged students. The instructor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... students with tools to effectively communicate their own work and research to ... science writer (among other things). I've reproduced his post (with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  competitive industry with ultra-low margins. It would be easier to come up with ... allows international customers to pay with their native debit or credit

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  has been most mornings, it is very different from Boston. With this ... us. We are flying back from Thanksgiving break with my family in Myrtle ... probably wouldn’t recognize and who might be in 7.06 lecture with me. There

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... met with a counselor to talk about life. It's a nice break to go there and talk about things, and how to cope with the pressure that is MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  year to share with you. The pumpkin patch is handblown gradually over ... completely unrelated footage from one morning last October of me playing with Ragnar, my friend Allison C. '14's cat, on Loop, with a spider named Spooky

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  the blogs, for the office. And I'm still helping Kris out with them and ... recruitment and evaluation of students with exceptional academic and technical ... ). I have been and will be involved with many different nerdy events

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical ... -nighter working on a final paper. Some of the other old friends I caught up with are ... with love, Allan

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014