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• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... was made of. Now fast forward to today and what is on my mind. Today, I’ve got a bajillion things to do. And today, I will not finish all of them

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  going. Over the past month I've tried to unpack for you some of our ... 've discussed data and how to understand its validity. All of these posts have ... . The first answer, of course, is to keep on keeping on. Keep doing well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  . Welcome to REX. One of the first things you learn when you get to college ... frivolously dream of heading down to South Africa to see the great white sharks ... of me, I can’t imagine anywhere else I’d rather be. With regards to

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  laboratory that I think it might be time to familiarize myself with some of it ... doing so HOT out there! Most of the awards were going to Mr. USHER!" No ... !"). However, another group gets to explore the heating of Subway sandwiches in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... answer.  I’m happy. It sounds kind of silly that I even had to analyze my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible ... and emotional at the mere idea of even having the privilege to write

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... to find the polymer structure of the fabric? Conveniently, MIT ... are attached to it. For example, here are the FTIR spectra of silk and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  taped to the side. Thanks to the educational value of countless Halloweens ... Thursday also happened to be the night of a Random Hall study break, hosted ... slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The ... , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps ... ) than the population of MIT now. But, thanks to Kenny and the Museum, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in ... talking to the students, however, a strange feeling of familiarity emerged ... . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  are walking around campus, be sure to look around at all of MIT”s Public ... campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life ... may comprise more than 20% of the whole. Try to assemble your "text

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to ... plane home to california. i had a nagging sense that there were lots of ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  while now. Ryan said: "This is rather lame compared to the hacks of yore ... this stuff, which probably took dozens of man-hours to make, up in the ... generic moniker. It's used primarily to refer to the hackers of 5th East (my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of ... current residents of the hall went to Six Flags". I mean, "the 5th East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a ... a minimum of 2 and maximum of 4. [for the curious, links to ... Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  Humanitarian Blog. I wanted mitadmissions.org to have an area devoted to the many people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my ... need to be retreived), I noticed that there was a really neat view out of ... took a couple of pictures:   Then I went back to sleep. When I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of ... as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  year), the aim of this course is to provide the tools engineers need to ... engineers to meet their architect comrades). While some of the concepts are a ... believed to be outside the regulations because it was cut from sheets of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011