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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  survey to solicit feedback on the MyMIT blogs (look for this in a few weeks ... to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... was attending a seminar on podcasting a few weeks ago when they

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  're about to launch into a long-ish section on college applications; what we ... 're deciding what to prune from a too-long application, or choosing what goes on ... ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... needed them back that evening, took them with me on a field trip, then ... VLA to hand the papers back to Dale, who happened to be on-site. AHHHH

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  's previous lectures are also a must-see hit on Youtube, thanks to MIT Open ... other 20,170 people who claim to be a fan of calculus on Facebook. (That ... nudges you to think about math in a new way, whereas Diff. Eq. is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... progressing Mandarin studies, and he pointed me to his new OpenCourseWare 21F ... on serious issues like stress, depression, sexuality, etc, but to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  the chance, we borrowed a car and headed out to Cambridge Antiques and ... " — tapping into some optimism that each new outing presented the chance to find ... love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million ... culprit was briefly considered (a 5'8", 115-lb. freshman from New York -- it ... overcome ("It would be entirely unethical of me to stuff a ballot box, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  drive up close, you have to use a car that runs on diesel. There are some ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... a bunch of Python scripts on brand new fancy shmancy data collected by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you ... with this group/family/community and it has been a blast! To make matters ... Sandwich. They are new on the MIT scene but their sound is phenomenal

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... out what to work on, feeling like nothing i was working on was ... . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning ... fantastic. But I left my kitty and went to the meetings, and I put on more

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new ... First, some updates: A few people have asked about information on ... should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  changed since then. Perhaps, I won’t be on a major road to trouble any ... was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  because he actually liked it, and years later, he would go on to pursue a ... because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a ... to begin, we wiggled our way through the crowd and found a spot where

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to ... the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road, on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... about what we want to see on our Brass Rat. The Brass Rat is a big chunk ... are taking a trip to the high school we work with to recruit new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global ... place really like? I was there to teach a renewable energy course at ... project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  's perspectives on the topic here. I said: I'm off to grab some food, head to a 2 ... that I'm back from New Jersey, I can say it was a much-needed break to ... a little creepy. So, on to the essay. For a little backstory and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious—about what college would be like. Picnics on a sunny quad, aesthetic library

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025