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• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i ... ." me: "OH!!" a few minutes later we were all outside trying to catch ... and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  autograph my problem set. Now to see if they want a guest spot on my blog ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I ... So it's Nobel Prize week, and this year, MIT has been able to add

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  .  We recognize it's a lot of work for all of you to apply to MIT. We ... . We try to do what's best by MIT, and what's best by you. And ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  national sense of patriotism, or a common commitment to individual liberty ... civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific ... team to learn “Wargaming,” which is like a more complex game of Risk but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... very close to classes. Anecdotal proof: --- For five years, I'd had a ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... -jitsu lessons as a PE class. I'm really quite glad I decided to take jiu-jitsu, as I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... groceries. I go to chain restaurants with parking lots. Sometimes after I get

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece ... come up with the right details to describe a character, small things that ... , and my voice dropped to nearly a whisper, finger me hissed in the space

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... , I got the even stronger itch to make a video. So, last night, I scrambled to film and edit a vlog for—I think—the first time since undergrad

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  're a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... Director was told to organize his or her classmates into a shelter team, an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... , and how to take big problems and deal with them. There are a lot of ... incoming freshmen to the new curriculum. And 6.001 doesn't really have a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  , lots of chemical engineering, and oh, a fraternity. I tried to stifle a ... describing a solution to a chemical engineering problem that involved dozens of ... . Even if you know you only have 90 minutes or less to make a great

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  . Now I must admit by the end of the evening, I did have a slight crick in ... I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , a reference to Stonehenge. ... , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... . (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ...  http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... , was hit by shrapnel that entered through his eye; as a result, he has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013