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• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Mechanical Engineering Pre-Orientation Program, I was shuttled off on a tour of ... sensation of a vertical nap. -One fine night, I fell asleep on a roof ... , easily. Someday, her un-exhausted face will be on the cover of MIT Medical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  equivalent class bases their curriculum on it. The omnipotent hand of Google ... -- sometimes, they're actually based on a bunch of fresh research the professor ... year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  better recently! I've told the story once before on the blogs of how I went ... more parts of campus and made more friends as time went on.   ... 'm a 6.031 LA now, and someone put on Ecstasy of Gold during a grading

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  of the two dozen folks who went to Peru for the weekend went hiking on Saturday, but I had to rest on account of (a) the fact I was feeling a bit ... point more than half of the attendees were on their computer or doing some

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  updated!). A number of the journalists focus on the financial aid packages ... a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a ... ! Inside of our main lounge (Talbot), Alyssa W. '16 is working on creating ... . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  On Monday, I went to an afternoon tea sponsored by Course 21L ... talked with Teesa '08 (Course 8: Physics) about Kiss of the Spider Woman ... , one of MIT's Independent Living Groups (ILGs)) Meenal (Course 10

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  get the most of your time on campus. The first question I often hear ... attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and whens of financial ... Engineering Library. It's one of my favorite rooms on the campus. Panels &

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the ... from this experience: MIT values different parts of its mail depending on ... is a huge city with a bunch of neat things going on. There are art

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops ... overhead involved in managing all of my daily tasks. I am on the verge of ... the general arc of my life to go on after this year, but the details are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  on the bigger picture: the public interest. He stresses that all of our ... the identification of, and reliance on, fundamental principles: children ... of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... of equations that represent circuits. Later on we'll be covering things ... books on the topic, and used to be the head of the MIT AI Lab (before it

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the ... to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  first Mocha Show performance was on Friday night, so a good portion of my ... , grabbing dinner as a team, and putting egregious amounts of stage makeup on ... casting light on important facets of the feminine experience. i really wish

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was ... in the city on the 29th. Some of my friends from MIT will be stopping

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the ... going to ask depended heavily on our vision of what the story was going to ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013