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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... fascinating. Don’t miss it. Connect. Venture one conversation with a commonly ... what really mattered. Once I knew, the question no longer presented a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  the same office as my MIT sponsor, a Course 2 alumni. I had never been ... organized by the Alumni Association, which features a bustling community of ... with the Alumni Association to create externship listings that might be a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... here's the course description: "You choose the title, we improvise a 5

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

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen ... : one from a math/science teacher, one from a humanities/social studies teacher, and one from a guidance counselor. Find the teachers who will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... class notebooks. I've also found that it's a lot more fun when there are ... my lecture notes, there is a mixture of 1) abbreviated content (normal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... Briggs Field on a beautiful sunny day: Students who couldn't make the ... , Officer Collier.  You'll be missed. MIT has created a Sean A. Collier

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Innovation and Design, a class that all GEL1s take). This week was pretty long ... GEL, it’s recruiting season! Even if you’re not a part of a ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... I don't get a flaky biscuit, Moving on: I'm BACK! I love being back

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  projects. One day a new challenge caught his eye and CourseRoad was created ... make you feel better :D] Let me start with a piece of advice: you know ... ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  practices and MCAT. No kidding. I sleep like a baby every night cuz I am so ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at ... due. I've honestly felt like I've had a "Hell month." But don't worry, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... a rage comic. Maybe you will too. And if so, you can join me in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  Today is Veteran's Day, a federal holiday honoring military veterans. So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental Health, I was greeted with cheers and pom poms and a strange ghostly ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011