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• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  York, on our first day of driving. The day that our air conditioner also ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This semester I loaded up on project classes. All three of my technical classes ... kind of rough but I cut back on classes a little and fortunately my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  - This is the kind of song you put on a blog post to see if anyone knows ... Stravinsky - This is the kind of piece you listen to on repeat because MITSO is ... still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Math courses; Eric Lander, the first author on the publication of the ... . Sadoway on teaching freshmen: "It’s true, we’re very busy, but those of us ... of Prof. Auroux on Youtube, entitled "A lovely phone call": For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  into a mosh pit and put a friend on my shoulders as one of my roommates danced on stage. Daniel Powter Concert - While all of his songs all sound ... , Shakespeare on the Common performed a modern rendition of Taming of the Shrew.

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  speech on the intricacy of Windows* and read this book to learn more. Me ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... the work to date. Script Kiddie 101 The primary portion of this

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Our office is not on Twitter (although our bot is), but 89 other ... Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student ... me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... up your psets, perhaps)? You may also have heard of Gleevec, a ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  of metal MIT students and alums wear on their fingers as a way of ... so on. The idea is to explore plenty of different ways to use your body ... projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I haven't talked about any MIT alumni K-12 teachers. A number of my friends and acquaintances are teachers, and they are fantastic. One of these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice-covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  and watching Season 2 of Veronica Mars on DVD with my sister while ... on one of the New Year's party hats that were decorated by the 6-year ... 's like impossible to think of some clever 4 word phrase to encapsulate your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  Kappa Late Night, a fall talent show for charity sponsored by one of MIT ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number 1024!" Did you just think, "Hey, that's a power of 2!"? So did I! So did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday. Though it's been a lot of work, I've been having a lot of fun. Selecting

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s circumference and its radius. Doing a bit of algebra on the definition of [latex ... MIT students stuck a (plastic) cow on top of the Great Dome. [caption ... profile picture, parts of my names on many platforms, etc. I'm currently

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college ... they don't match up to the scores of the people on College Confidential

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009