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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  I hope over the next course of the year, we can get to know each other ... failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 ... a ride in my virtual time machine and look back on some of my science

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!

  

  coming soon. I'll let you know that part of today's challenge involved me eating an entire box of cookies and a bag of sun chips. Needless to say, I'm never eating either of those again. If you want to join in and remote

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  might understand why. On the first day of classes, I had Intro to Biology ... Fisher). Both professors elected to spend the bulk of lecture outlining the ... anticlimactic finale to Day 1 of Eric Lander's legendary 7.012 course: Up next

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen ... members from the classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  'll definitely hear of online book exchanges (MIT411.com used to be one of them ... to get. Usually you can buy older editions of textbooks for a lot less ... Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to solve mine. This blog is supposed to have a question on it, so I'll make

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... impossible to type. i've tried not to mention you here too often, out of fear ... weight of what i went through, and it feels whiny to say but i wish i had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... positivity. I know I did. That’s part of why I decided to write this two ... someone was able to win an argument with me or not. Now, none of my friends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We ... T (subway) or a taxi to get out there. I got back late because of Med ... an old entry of Ben's, or as the guy voted Most Likely to Cure Cancer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... system.” She also emphasized that we need to find better measures of ... does this apply to MIT? The end of the talk focused on “translating

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  wrong. To those of you who were on the waitlist, particularly those of ... all of this is that it would have been impossible to choose between you had we been able to take a few, because each of you has a ton of heart

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... percentage of students who choose to accept our offer of admission. The wait list is used to manage the uncertainty of knowing how many students will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  of spending four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat ... 's nice to only start walking to class ten minutes before the start of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many ... . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be ... . See, I'm starting to get interview invites from some of the graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  always dreamed of traveling to Europe, so I was really excited and couldn ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023