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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... presence lingers just a bit too long (it does, sometimes). i wanted to carve

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  to leave Vegas early to get a head start on getting to Los Angeles ... on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The ... brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  , you have to work out more than twice a week, so we all work out on our ... fortunate enough to get to ride on a KC-135 (a cool, military aerial refeuling ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  collaborators asked if we could hop on a zoom call real quick to go through some ... , because while everyone is hanging out downstairs, you have to hop on a zoom ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  a hike to find a secluded place to pee, stung my leg on some nettle ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped ... us decelerated. We all craned our necks to see why; a big black bear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn ... "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since ... days, but quickly overstayed their welcome and threatened to drown me ... terrifying cyclones captured on a blank canvass might be beautiful—the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to ... give a warm welcome to: Andi Q. '25 of South Africa, connoisseur of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... included discussions on everything from admissions to the point at which ... as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  during the session, for a quick test of your single variable integration ... MIT: Where we make "nerdy" things fun. Exhibit A: Mystery Hunt Team ... entire weekend was not enough, our recent team party included a night

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to ... protocol or to finish a test we're working on, I can think of no better way ... makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  two camps when it comes to a new year. The first camp sees it as a reset ... grade each of them on an A+ to F- scale (wondering for the umpteenth time ... sleep. I decide to pass the time by taking a quiz on Buzzfeed. This quiz

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... displayed his or her drawings and models and gave a short presentation to a ... . The Department is committed to a concern for human values and for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  the new one, but was it good? Saturday, I went to check out a new ... to celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. I returned to my Texas roots ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... open this door you will likely receive a shock to the palm of your hand

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new ... people on campus rely on. This really has the potential to revolutionize

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  A little more than a year ago, we here on the blogs were celebrating ... New Year Evie above) Peggy in a interesting or funny scenario (similar ... nice hand drawn entries... points go to a cute manga Peggy. You'll have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007