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• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn ... already knew something about us. So we invited students to tune into a ... MIT: If you don't know much about MIT, this might be a good place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of ... would encourage you to join me. Maybe, if I'm so motivated, I'll write a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  . some might say that you can't make a bad choice here, and that may be true, but that doesn't mean you have to make a hasty one. then again ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  all these details to make my vision a reality. That is what motivates me ... where I try to communicate my vision and they make it into a reality. For ... you care so much and work so hard to make a piece the best that it can

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  information in order to make a decision, but there is no substitute for ... , desires and objectives. Just a little food for thought, as the time to make ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  brilliant idea to make them their own MIT degrees, which we personalized a bit ... after you graduate?" Two years seems like a lifetime to me, although I ... will probably take a little longer than Pangea did to separate. Whether

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  of making weird shapes in Rhino, I decided to use Processing to turn some data into something a bit more fun to play with. ~~~ http ... ). Mouseover a data point to see the number of undergrads from that state. Now

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  post to be. I better try to sleep now. It is 10:30, and I am making a new ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my ... name, the office itself is open to everyone. They truly make you feel

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  definitely in the no-no set of words. Putting it all together To make a ... onto your cold-making box. I like to think about sticking-together rocks ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  by a woman, to represent 2007's even gender ratio. To prevent such ... found it a little upsetting, since most people's objection to the woman ... to Boston and the outside world. Behind the bridge, a boat representing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  also wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to browse all 363 events ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun ... decided where you're going to live, REX is a great opportunity to find out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  are slightly less crowded as I make my trek to campus (but still packed ... exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help ... student culture. We pay you for this work. It’s a pretty good gig, to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or ... wondered if moving across the country to school was taking a huge risk. I ... before I adjusted to a new environment and began to enjoy everything that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  proximity to H Mart, I've been making a lot of Asian recipes! It's convenient ... 'm planning to make by putting videos in a playlist; that way, they're easy to ... 'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... happens - you try to push the cart in a straight line, but at the slightest ... chaotic, chaotic to the point that sometimes you can’t push a cart down the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... ’t make the Early Action deadline, it is okay to apply Regular Action (RA ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  . It almost makes me want to stop writing my usual blog entries about ... until midnight running experiments. Maybe it's just a testament to campus ... equipment." adjective -- pertaining to one's UROP "My UROP professor gave me a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  incredibly difficult to make work correctly, so we abandoned it for a much ... to making me live a happier life (well, eventually. This sleepless ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011