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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  the hell the Biot-Savart equation is, and make you work harder on your ... by showing what you're about to see.) Video 1: Ozone Video 2: Joke ... Allow me to combine Bryan's impressive video posting initiative with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ... culture and traditions. MIT housing is guaranteed for your entire undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  the last several months, as you have been waiting to find out your ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... different from yours. This opportunity, in fact, may turn out to be the one

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  on your way back to the lounge, amazing opera floats out the door ... the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT professor Henry Jenkins on Star Wars fandom: Henry Jenkins is perhaps the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  . Tomorrow is a new day, and a new tie. I'm very much looking forward to ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  to look back on all that happened and express to you a bigger picture ... out and growing up and being on your own. Academically, first semester ... Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet

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

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  I didn't really know anyone in Tokyo, to which she said "Me, your ... basic human kindness in a way that, much like yours truly on my first day ... Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas ... decided to work on an [annotation note="In a world where I passed 6.00, I am ... tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  building 3, on the first floor, room 08. Main campus is considered to be the ... on the south, Massachusetts Avenue (Mass Ave to the natives) on the ... impact on your happiness as a student. MIT's campus is in the middle of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  can't exactly wear a naked Arduino on your foot.  We needed to build an ... an inferior engineering result simply because you're reluctant to hurt ... choose your own sounds for Stepper to play, and (2) let you visualize your

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  if I`m conforming to the HASS requirements...), I reflect on just how ... , `innovation randomness` has both increased and decreased, depending on your ... relied on strangers to pick me up and give me rides, the vast majority of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your ... with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do this now to ... system to reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the lost password link

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to ... , basically a program where you pay a lot of money to live on a college campus ... recommend these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my new banner. (That, and I've hit a creative roadblock.) I am

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  goes. Originally, I just planned on showing up to the lecture and maybe ... to do very often." It's a speech written on the occasion of Schwartz ... As I mentioned earlier, Neil Gaiman is coming to MIT! The lecture he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I ... Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit, and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  for Dorm Rush. Helped out with parties on my hall. Helped choose new ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics. Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  great on your med school application! But eveen the regular old course 10 ... that uncommon." "No, parents are going to read this and be all, 'Oh good ... . :) Max In my freshman year, Course 10: Chemical Engineering decided to add

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006