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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... we could actually get to all my questions. There’s now an e-mail thread ... special out-of-class talk on cosmic strings to anyone from our class who was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on ... to help connect students with resources on campus…
“  And when it comes to resources on campus, MIT has the rainbow lounge, where I will be

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay ... surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter ... , four friends and I drove to Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire, which somehow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... interviewed Brandon about his experience on King of the Nerds. How did you get on the show? I was contacted by casting and asked to make an audition

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and ... apply to MIT. I read my acceptance letter on March 14 at 11:30PM. I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  'd ever get to explore or do. I've tried so many new things, met so many ... Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los ... , trivial updates to, no one to call on Discord and watch Adventure Time with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to ... grasped two other seats and sat down on the new low seat. Then a boy came ... climbing up the walls, and bubbles knee-high on the floor. You know you’re

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  as a New Englander now?) 29) Went to Salem, MA on Halloween Weekend ... to get my Brass Rat 12) Unknowingly ended up in a private Sting ... With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  spend your extra time getting your Pirate Certificate instead! (Just ... Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on the spot. I didn't have my own startup yet so I just focused on getting ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , seizing on an opportunity to get me into the kitchen, asked me to come up ... 'm sorry, but you're wrong. At other times, it's quite a lot to handle, and I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , then your math is going to be fragile and prone to collapse. You can ... that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... graph whose nodes are all websites on the internet and where an edge

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  my degree in Management Science). Famous architects like Holl get to ... left. Originally, MIT tried to build the dorm on the right (the zig ... architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... , Red Sox riots, and now a new one. Several weeks ago I heard about a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  to lab tonight at 7:30 to change the media on my COS cells... and if there's one thing I don't want to do after getting home late, it's study ... had given lip service to the idea that you could get a research job, if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  these soon. Best of all, I get to bond with new residents, transfers and ... , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... to deliver workshops on providing competent and inclusive care to teens

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write ... commonly) are free to put as much or as little money as desired on the card

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  of different interests. You're trying to build a visual identity for ... . And you're designing for an audience, so your choices have to be clear ... viewers. On top of that, you're designing for actors, which means you need

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family ... check your application tracking on MyMIT today. If you are missing an ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007