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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  amazing things, and then, maybe, one day, I’ll go to Ethiopia and make sure ... Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... model, so we got to go outside and take measurements under cloudy skies ... . Yeesh. That night, I tried to work on a paper but couldn't. I also didn

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  this pset, so it is unnecessarily demanding to finish the pset by this ... the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am extremely excited to share my MIT world with the blogosphere and to heighten this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists ... completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  's edition of TechTalk, a newspaper published by the MIT News Office. Why ... , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  ="some manga, and also i want to start pachinko by min jin lee ... USB stick. the first album i downloaded to it was Ocean Eyes by Owl City ... seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  . According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... research teams raced to map the Universe by locating the most distant ... acceleration is thought to be driven by dark energy, but what that dark energy is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  of things like "can eat five plates of food at dinner",* "can make ... thing I currently have to a job, and expecting me to have any deep insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  thing, you're talking to someone who loves sleep. Sleep and food are two ... wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  : the Apple Bake. This annual event celebrates fall by having the floors of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... to note on the entry form what you swapped!) Apple Core of my Floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  created by students just like us. It was incredible speaking to alumni ... and Tom Delaney came by to grab some food and say hi to our alumni and ... taken by Acrefoot (Michael) M. '11 The cats were also very excited to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  intimidated by the to-do list. With that said, I did not apply Early Action to ... Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  is really too early to have class; unfortunately, all semester I will have to take it like a champ. So today's schedule went a little like ... , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we had room to admit students ... , our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017