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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  year left, as difficult as that is to believe. It's kind of scary to ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period ... for the rest of the summer: Monday: Train to Charlottesville, VA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... education, I felt compelled to try. So Stephen, a few of us here at

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot ... quickly into the woods and out of sight. Time to take out a bunker.... At ... learning how to jump out of airplanes, the Army way. That means you go out

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for students are formative or summative, and 11.129 is more likely to talk about

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... take off the waitlist. As of right now, it's too early to know anything ... . Regardless, if you are on the waitlist and hope to be taken off of the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has ... : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it ... prepared to take back their cannon. Although we're sad to see it go, we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  supposed to be the highest visibility night this weekend of the solar flare ... . She agreed. After an hour of discussion, we took 10-10:30pm to rally the ... This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  would suggest doing your exploration closer to the beginning of your ... success, among other things (e.g. moving my bed to the other side of my room ... number of factors including, but not limited to: Aesthetic Preferences

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  , FL. Amy has already flown to Texas in advance of her meeting in Dallas ... favorite times of the year. I really enjoy coming to you and seeing your city ... families and for me is always evident. I look forward to meeting many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry ... semester of freshman year 2) D's and F's don't show up at all 3) You have to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  close enough to the truth for the purposes of this entry.) 3. Applicants ... playing around with Matlab to see if that's true.) Of course, you can ... (and it's difficult to think of a school which would be a good control

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  how Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, would have wanted his legacy to ... you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime ... Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  blogger committee - composed of communications staff and some senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications. We laughed. We cried. We got ... the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... these pictures - and, of course, inexpressible thanks to all the hackers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  .) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... bus back to MIT for Nightmarket. This event is co-sponsored by lots of ... ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... for me. I receded into the basements of Stata to shield myself. I then walked to the other side of main campus to go to a class. The lecture hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  walked 19,000 steps in the process of trying to pack all my stuff ... finals and my leaving...) and I haven't been able to resist snapping some lovely springy pictures. This was drawn on one of the public

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019