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• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... great time to bond with teammates (and improve our rowing of course). It

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

    One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... , Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems ... in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it ... Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  flurry of thoughts last night ideas kept on popping up and getting knocked ... spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  not a part of my life going forward.“ -Anthony McHugh “I’ve taken up on ... This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week ... out. Maybe you're planning on pulling an all-nighter tonight and to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is globally renowned for its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you ... students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and the Disney World Marathon the next day on Sunday. I saw the picture of ... completion of the Dopey Challenge requires running a 5k on Thursday, a 10k on

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  math) That one culture essay on the first part of the application: I ... - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays about as I was exactly two years ago? Some of you probably are. Some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the ... on the forgotten username or password links beneath the login box on ... dragon, or intergalactic radio broadcast. However, following the release of

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  session, and late-night smoothies on Thursday Soapmaking, screen printing ... late-night crepe-making on Friday Breakfast, board games, 23.001: Intro ... *** and hot chocolate on Saturday ...and a healthy breakfast Sunday morning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should ... Form. Whether you wish to remain on MIT's wait list or not, please ... making a deposit). There won't be further news on the wait list until mid

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT ... normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  When I got out of my 5.13 lecture at 12:55, I walked from the Green ... Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... ridiculously quickly, but this is now on the Dot outside the Green Building

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  my name, Planes and space is my game, First American on the moon, that ... space is my neighborhood, On July 16, 1969, Apollo left earth with one thing on it's mind, To boldly go where we've never gone before, Armstrong

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before January 1 ... on or before January 1. However, I strongly discourage procrastination ... will take our records office to process and for it to appear on your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  alarms of any dorm on the MIT campus. Because just because you go to MIT ... heard something, maybe on these blogs, about the culture of a dorm being ... say on the back of our blogger t-shirts." "THIS IS THE REAL MIT!" I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007