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• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  don't even have to leave your room to see people. This particular room ... door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of the building, making it visible from the third-floor portal to the 282

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  my lab is coordinating a book group to get together and discuss it ... sequence as much of the genome as possible before Celera could get to it. In ... contribution to the Human Genome Project (you know... the one that sequenced the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  actually get out on the water. Over the summer, I finally managed to get on ... get first! It was a dream come true to compete in a sport I’d been ... , it also takes me much longer to get to campus, and I have to plan a lot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  to the point where I simply snapped and said "If you're so fat, then ... weeks" or "Get rid of that chub ab exercises". I would go to my room every ... around on campus. The goal for now is to get stronger (without teetering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... and interviews that I have done since getting to MIT. From gaining other ... , to getting internship offers, my ROTC experience has given me an edge

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... to my second class. I grabbed lunch with some friends, and then trekked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  with the resources and ability to get there.   We have launched ... threw a piece of paper and they told me "you're going to Austria," and I ... MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  to observation distance instead of gunpowder-blasting-into-your ... succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

   materials from your school counselor (typically including your transcript, a school ... section of your application. We will also accept letters and materials submitted through your school’s preferred system, such as Parchment, Naviance
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to send an official college transcript?

  Applicants who have completed college coursework are asked to submit ... entered as a supplemental document in your file. Enrolling first ... will be required to submit an official college transcript.
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the MIT experience unique. I've finally decided to get out my DSLR that ... numbers seems unintuitive. Buildings 3 and 4 should be next to each other ... building route sequence would be 7, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 14. If you're not an MIT

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• 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 ... ’ll be using infrared data to learn how the Milky Way formed. But before I

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

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study ... say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  to be someone/something you're not. Sigh... ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  at home, as I'll do today. I really do enjoy reading your applications. When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... 's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank ... own background and culture  HMW get individuals to get familiar with ... Teams channel to help get it fixed. Our codebase was SUPER organized and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you’re ... excited. I wanted to get out of the South, away from the systems of my youth ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  fanfiction of side characters in your own story, to get excited about the world ... call to adventure [caption id="" align="alignright" width="500 ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022