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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... considers herself really lucky to have had the opportunity to work at such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  don't want to hear all the way through. 9. Daniela, for having a really ... -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to address fundamental questions about climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we ... After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your application has entered a black hole. So what really happens between when you
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  -258-8304. Please be patient, as materials take a day or two to process. Now, to get ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  stop for questions, but a couple times students have stopped to ask him ... time to introduce the concept of the Fourier Transform, he gave a 10 ... Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... 's what I like to see on a problem set. :) ... into strands of spaghetti. Our professor obviously had a good time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might ... we had more important business to attend to. A chorus of "Kuwait ... the world, but it actually looks like a really cool place to give a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I ... , excited. True to form, I’ve arrived at South Station perhaps a little

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  graduate school to being a professor, or from medical school to being a ... would be huge: Go to college. Go to graduate school. ??? Be a ... took a leap of faith and applied to MIT. I took the first steps, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period ... , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal ... , separating it from Boston). We got there early enough to have a great view of ... 'm working on a great UROP, I have plenty of fun projects to spend my spare

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... commented that perhaps I would like to someday become a professional plane

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

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... offered a job. it happened to be an infinitely more interesting company and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a ... , and then eventually went to bed. It was a good day, quickly to be ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  telling him. Branding is important. You need to come up with a rap name ... , so I decided to give a better response. "Okay, how about people who ... dehumanizing to reduce anybody to such a label. Okay, but maybe I'm taking

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... their ranks, since he knew every word to every song) -- it's always a ... -hour walk home. To stave off the otherwise-inevitable heatstroke, we took a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013