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• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  applying? Can I send any?" Yes. We're happy to accept extra materials if you ... explaining a special circumstance in your case. anonymous wrote, "I am a high school senior from India and thereby an international candidate.I am one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of English – especially not at (hopefully) MIT!” Boy, was I wrong. (Thankfully

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  Hello hello! I am Alina S. (‘24). Briefly: I am a course 2A (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House. I am Vietnamese and Filipino and a first-gen immigrant on both sides

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the blues." -- Nida Sinnokrot, Palestine Blues   Spring break, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  retrospect a bit impolite. It happened a little over three years ago, when I ... (relativity) but I didn't know the difference, so when the TAs skipped over my section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  I have an interesting relationship with Harvard. Coming from MIT I have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  foods is listed in kilojoules in addition to in calories. Hallo again. I've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 ... 200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... would be catered dinner. I’d had a midterm and a major essay on Thursday

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  .) I’m mildly obsessed with the internet. Actually, mildly is putting it mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.”    I wrote this ... , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored. I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  Since Fall 2018, I've lived at WILG, an independent living group at ... know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... and so I have decided to share my (bad) poetry and my peers' (good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  younger than the ring itself.) For starters, I wanna say that I got all ... and talking with our friends. And I have reason to believe, from what I ... anything, they screamed even louder. I probably heard about 15% of the actual

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates/labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  passing, Jessica and I learned that we both had known Professor Winston ... , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  already i've seen my friends planning out their fall semesters on firehose ... 'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019