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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I'm special. Perhaps this year I'll get crazy and occasionally sit at that ... monotonous. The setting? Indeed. But in the same way that a good book can carry

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  molecular orbital diagrams. You still have a 14.01 pset to do, before the sun ... , you decide to return to your 14.01, for it is due in 11 hours. Luckily, the solutions to this puzzle will be posted before Sunday. :) ps. psst

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another ... , isn't forceful by nature, but just acts a suggestion, a guide. I ... There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  inscription translation is now an open question to be answered by you, as is the ... welcome to a special CIS Starr Forum, "The Big Question: How and When to ... I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the ... a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... rewritten thousands of words, but every time I got close to finishing a draft

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... me that the world is a beautiful place. It's easy to forget that when ... holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest ... MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math/science teacher and a humanities/social science/language teacher. We accept Quest
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  to get my feet wet (err...only metaphorically) with Winter School. It ... ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I actually had several more entries partly written, but never got a chance to finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back ... trip to Florida starts in less than a month! Forthcoming blog entries ... continuing of the Meet the Admissions Officers series, a look forward to our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure ... to draw some pictures to factor out a few thousand words. ... This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  We're at a strange point in the political climate where white supremacists, klansmen, and outright Nazis have become comfortable enough to ... gathered yesterday afternoon to share some better ideas. 5:30 pm, Cambridge

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of ... 'm constantly trying to do a balancing act between telling the stories that ... announced to the crowd that the score was 2-0 in the second inning. That part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your ... poetry that tries to incorporate math always comes off as cringe.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... // watched Qala a little too late and cried a little too much // cut my hair ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo of the Day – Installment #1 Photo of the day #1

  

  While I try go get in the swing of things with the start of the semester, I'll begin what I hope will become a new tradition (pending the ... 's appropriate given the start of the term. Is this a good or a bad sign?

  • by Bryan
  • September 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate ... ' stuff I want to tell you guys about (including a video of the Simmons ... what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the-city's-a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011