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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  sleep and dares anybody who walks by to have a staring contest with him ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles ... Krystal talked about had been picked through and claimed. I don’t like to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  awesome opportunity to get hands-on experience that related to what I was ... The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the ... international students at MIT. The first part displays MIT’s commitment to gender

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... travel. Wednesday was 13 hours including traffic by bus, just me and my ... , Saturday night coming back was 10 hours by car, just me and my dad, 1 phantom

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... -o-clock hour encroaches. sewing shirts Est. time: 1 hour each Shoutout to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... . At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and ... College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  'm in Moorestown, NJ, talking to students from South Jersey and Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow). We'll be doing more travel together as a group to meet with prospective

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  , check. Ability to make R2D2 whirring noises and generate smoke by friction ... pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  closer to the all important yet elusive conviction that I'm doing right by ... . Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet ... light outside was grey and a bit yellow and when it deepened to blue I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... tomorrow. The really great thing about coming to Cambridge is that we’re invited to all the Fresher’s (that’s what they call

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  Class of 2010 Excels: from Rifle Champion to Water Quality Researcher ... passions. Zachary Bjornson-Hooper, who wants to study bioengineering to design fuel cells, was named by Teen People magazine as one of 20 teens who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach ... UROP this summer, two of which were federal holidays) -- we decided to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... breakfast, while my brother and I groggily walked to the kitchen. I liked it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  (global warming must be playing its part), we still trekked down to Florida this year to take advantage of their always warm weather, and most importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013