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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... high school (duh), and most people had to fight to get the opportunities

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an ... ) Software Construction class. So, we decided to take this UROP for credit ... UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers ... formulas (for example, to determine the optimal size of government). For 17

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  a client that was looking for a way to use his iPhone to take steady ... to maneuver his phone and did not need a giant robot arm to do it for ... searching for more premade components to work with, we finally found two that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are ... -guessing their decision to go far away from home for college.   tolerate it I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  providing many opportunities to go abroad to work, volunteer and learn for ... . A pretty common question for people to ask me is where I’m going next ... to keep traveling, learning new languages and exploring. I consider

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  brought to you by, well, Harvard. Two days ago I was chatting on the phone with my dad. I was crossing Mass Ave so as to get to Building 7, MIT ... the souvenir racks, leaving room for one MIT shirt? That school who

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... addition to all of the above, I will be... Cooking food for myself instead

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we ... guess i'll have to start spelling jen with two n's. Posted by: jen(n) '11

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means ... you see it (unless you get accepted to MIT and we become friends). Left

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  logged out of the Athena machine I'd tied my existence to for the entire ... three new web frameworks at us every lab and we have to learn them and ... coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2012! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... us out of the country, setting up bank accounts, trying to register new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  on our own anyway, but I elected to stay awake for 36 straight hours ... , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... sharing stories about phone calls last year to freshmen we know and love now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  biodiversity" survive for five million years without any direct contact with the ... 've begun my big summer project - redesigning the admissions web site. The new site is going to be so awesome. Just you wait and see. :-) How's summer

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  skies for us, despite all extra grief we'd been through to get there. And ... shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... supposed to be legen - wait for it - dary. Awe-inspiring. Epic. Life

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  for the Baltimore/Washington Region American Red Cross. I talked to ... worked for several years as a consultant. We also compared her work to an ... ultimately lead to the development of appropriate risk models for children

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005