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• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  bodies are torn apart by bullets their taxes paid for. Our humanity is torn ... graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  ! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy answer:       I have been privileged to know and ... . But right now, I don't think I've ever been prouder to be an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  progress, to improve their writing by revising, to read the work of ... to know what to pack, how to eat for cheap, etc, let me know! ... So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909 ... to Weather Forecasting Looking for Ancient Runes, try 6.875J ... BOOK FOR NINE YEARS ... ZOMG Oh and if you think you're going to post a

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  the lives disrupted by climate change Tarnished Horizons is intended to ... . Installation runs November 11th to 17th Commissioned by the MIT Committee on ... doing great on the climate change front. Here's another one by the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week that we will not be getting this year, we present to you the very ... that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last ... all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  then it's not to be missed! Oooh, you can also get a lot of Starbucks and ... Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  The Brass Rat, the MIT class ring. MIT students get theirs sophomore ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  ...relax, unwind - get ready for the hustle and bustle of fall 2008. It's been an ... -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  -offs. He is a man with fashion sense to rival your own. He gets his work done ... auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  in 3 flat to find something to wear for school. Exhibit A: This ... over the other proves to be a mind-clearing activity. So while stuffing clothes into the drawer this week, I realized that since I've come to MIT, I

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on particularly weird or ironic evolutionary imperatives, or by producing really

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. 6,820 students applied for early ... effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a pleasure to do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  Office. In addition to the Career Office, there's also UPOP, a program for ... hosted by companies during IAP. PS. For all of you who emailed me with questions, I'll be responding to those questions via an entry tomorrow. For

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... for the Real World" // Charles Huang, "Ice Cream Battleground" // Josh

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not ... wanted to donate blood for a demonstration. I thought he was joking and ... Yesterday, I attended my last 7.05 (Biochemistry) lecture taught by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  through EMTing for a bit to help myself. It's all figured out, right? Where ... experiences I wouldn't give up for the world. So it's okay to not know what you want to be when you grow up. Eventually, you'll get there. And it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008