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• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... . Don't go comparing yourselves to other people who did or did not get in

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  Dome) Hacks and meta-hacks (an MIT map gets modified to include the ... date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups for some of the hacks, since the last time I went to the site. Well done

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... ! 2.007 was started by MIT Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  Ramachandran winning the 61st National Spelling Bee by spelling his own name ... . * "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin. * McDonald's plans to open 20 ... in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  of the MIT community and compete to win great prizes donated by local ... than 3 million are homeless in Pakistan, the country worst hit by the ... survivors, especially the thousands of children orphaned by the disaster

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... successfully prepare them to do that. The students who enter MIT bring with them ... students to be incredibly engaged and think that nothing is impossible. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... to advance to the semifinal of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the ... its fiercely loyal residents to their former home, and grasping the ... for many years to come. I was part of the transportation group. Each day

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  wondering what all the fuss is about, but let me tell you: the Subway was, by ... the entirety of the MIT campus. Indeed, what does the Stud have left to ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  she returned home from her trip, she wanted to empower the girls by ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the ... year to share with you. The pumpkin patch is handblown gradually over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the ... the introductory level biology class taught by the famous Eric Lander ... the craziest and most entertaining lecturers to grace the front of 10

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  designed mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of ... posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by ... bacterial colonies makes me want to shoot myself in the face. (Speaking of my UROP, I was explaining the O'Connor Lab's work to my friend Adrian

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... . It's a great way to escape the MIT bubble and get some (literal) fresh ... to realize that its students need to get out more, so we actually have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a ... Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this ... to be exact. Amal, the guy who organized the convention, was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  celebrating innovative technology by bringing in companies to showcase their ... and an all-expenses-paid trip to MIT - to the top three winners. To ... guys! If you have any questions feel free to email the organizers. Let

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  our minds to. The week was led by head facilitators, Tracy Purinton (the ... Massachusetts, allowing students the opportunity to fully engage in the leadership ... joined ~50 other MIT students and boarded a bus to the Camp Wonderland

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  would assist us in getting to know you. Obviously, the greater the distance from your high school studies, the more creative you'll have to be ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  [by Farre Nixon '11] Check out the Metropolis trailer! On Saturday ... to accompany the visuals. What drew such large crowds for this ... year” to attend. The Alloy Orchestra, based here in Cambridge, is

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011