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• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... already moved in. There were very few people in the first couple of days

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  Patriots' Day in Boston, about my first time watching that most unifying of ... rate in the triple digits.  The wailing of sirens and the steady chop-chop-chop of helicopter blades overhead filled the air. We were very fortunate

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

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  diseases. The gallery on the first floor of this brand new center is ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've had

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which consists of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into ... floor, with colossal windows on two of the walls, and we also had a suite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  . Trust me. 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms I -- Write the first 8 bars of ... should basically consist of a "memorable moment" in the first four bars and ... first part written already, and then the second part should kind of follow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  that fine university. Here is the story of one of the very first students ... Cornell University. She was one of the first students that I recruited to ... Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter ... from the semester. And I was alone. My roommate left the Saturday of finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those ... on the brightness of burning magnesium, a call for more systematic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right ... freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  the time of our first rejection from one of those 3, we decided last ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Director of the Humans and Automation Lab, which hosts many Aero/Astro UROPs ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  questions, the first of which was: Having begun the reading, is the optional ... the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke ... Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company to land on the moon earlier this year. While their first attempt

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... define one. The maurer is a unit of awesomeness, equal to the awesomeness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  reviews from a whole variety of reviewers, including the Boston Globe and ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the ... of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past ... history of military training; indeed, the MIT charter specifies that the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007