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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that nobody really wants in the first place (i.e., a mild splash of ... As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... commitment, but ultimately bring me a lot of joy or pride. So the question ... what? Going to two meetings of the National Honors Society or the Physics

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  butt glued to a random chair on the first floor of Stata. But your mentor ... cast sharp shadows across the road, cutting gashes of total darkness ... you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  ----------------------------- 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. 2. I can ... in my two truths and a lie was: 1. The first day of high school, I rode ... . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... extraordinaire and recent joiner of the ranks of the notebook addicted, and the

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

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer ... first come first serve, meaning the earlier you get there, the better view ... time I arrived, and the wait time total - the amount of time that passes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year successfully, i.e. earning first-degree class marks on the exams. In particular, although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year might usually have. There's still something about the turn of the year and the impending end of the semester, though, that demands one gently

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him, which always makes me think of The Matrix. (It's shamelessly borrowed from

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of ... true that I had already seen it; for some reason it was the museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  the first place. 6. Speaking of McCormick, while I was living there I ... ’t. After the first of our few rehearsals with the entire Monologues cast the ... The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the computer screen and having no breaks except a couple of trips to the bathroom ... submission won't work unless you have the whole thing correct. If you turn it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of ... will be the questions that I answer first.   Finally (for this ... closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  hockey, so we postponed my first day by six months.) Monday was the 2 ... figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... less than 8 vectors to break down, the use of double-angle formulas, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our inaugural event. Last fall, we welcomed our first group of high school juniors ... insights into the college application process—through the unique lens of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero ... Grumman. So there we are, the students of the sophomore "aeroastro boot camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising ... ) Classes I’m really enjoying my immunology program. For a taste of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my ... woke up to the second blizzard of the year (which conveniently arrived

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  . Almost a quarter of a century after first juggling in the Infinite, Smyly ... -druhdruhdrum sound of the crossing signal on Mass Ave is still audible as you pass ... faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014