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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on ... , as I am a proud owner of new glasses! We also met up with my cousin ... Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  Beginning this weekend, MIT will be going on the road with Brown ... philosophies on admissions, financial aid, and more. Each session, including Q ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  point of the above, but this was such an important and new experience. Not ... It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  alum from the class of '82, and she had a lot of really great input on ... presentation on the last day of UPOP. We don't look very happy in that picture ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on ... strong new flavor of sweet layered over the already present strawberry ... The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  , and we'll try to answer new questions over the next couple of days. You ... On Thursday, December 15th, we released decisions for Early Action ... (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... a feng shui of Youtube. First: I was on Youtube the other day and on ... win all sorts of stuff and get to help record a new song for Songs

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try ... Swift’s new album, and start digging myself out of my inbox. 11:11 am: I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  engine outside, the lack of wifi (unless you're on a fancy flight or just ... of the hardest majors on campus? But there was also the slight gnawing in the back of my mind: what about Course 6? To give some clarity on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  slightly outdated) version of Marty's talk on the same topic at last year ... on. Hope to see some of you there! ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  me. The Leaves: One of the most memorable experiences about fall on ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... Autumn is arguably one of the best seasons there is, especially here

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... Raisin Bran, read the syllabus for "Zumba" (my new PE class) and choked on ... pulled on a pair of sweatpants (to protect my legs against the sub

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  New York Times), on international education and admissions, and on ... The Barkowitz Blog, which is both clever and informative on the topic of ... down in the Admissions Records Office, checking in on things there. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... constraints on new initiatives and the decision process behind them. While I may

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba ... currently broken) I slapped my palms on either side of my mat and began ... on my back, knees lifted, doing a long set of crunches, the instructor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  water but keeps on vomiting it up, fever of over 100 degrees, has no ... into wild games of charades, adding pressure on top of the doctor ... about; this is the population who are on the cutting board of health care

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  Simmons folk, new kids on the block. Time to write the next chapter, to be full of exciting new adventures and changes. But some things never ... Do you know what day it is? Well, one year ago, on September 17th

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  semester, although my rate of picking up new tricks has definitely slowed 😅 ... 's called pancake night (because we didn't want to step on the toes of an ... was curious. For all of undergrad, I was always running short on time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s circumference and its radius. Doing a bit of algebra on the definition of [latex ... support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek ... MIT students stuck a (plastic) cow on top of the Great Dome. [caption

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor ... lacking on partying or hazing stories, instead speaking of the intense ... these rules may have an impact on the nature of the late nights, it was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011