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• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  embarks on a new journey. We'll miss you, Ben. ... fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application ... ’ll verify these scores upon enrollment. If you receive new exam results after
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  , having friends that i can rely on during emergencies, etc.) and because of ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  settle on the sole hallmark and signifier of America’s achievements ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body ... my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  getting an efficiency apartment in one of the family residences on campus ... dorm I stayed in took me on a tour of the dorm, and by the time we ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston ... semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to ... you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies ... on Monday. But I can tell you that it won't change who you are

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  sugar and flour, and 7 large cans of shortening. On the way back, Kristen ... the concrete blocks we were going to stack on top of it. We couldn ... ’t enough of, on top of the burnt/undercooked pie crust (9:15). The peaches

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on ... says sleep isn't on your list of things you did over CPW either. Am I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  -encompassing. Any individual aspect of MIT is, on its own, manageable, but put it all ... explain, but when I’m on campus, I’m just less certain in my own sense of ... people and the world around me, exploring new parts of myself. It

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... about, going back decades. My friend Sarah Z. '24 is on RingComm, a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great ... declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is part of the Course 4 department that I'm planning to tackle on as well

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those of climbing animals. There are also new recipes for poisons, thoughts on the brightness of burning magnesium, a call for more systematic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a ... , the current state of my life and psyche, and the existence of God. However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  plenty of space on the harddrive. So any old green computer couldn ... very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a ... set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion of the publication of his new book (!!!), Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a ... sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have ... had the most incredible view of the night sky. we pulled over on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  who rock science!) 2 of the 8 New York Times Scholars A student who ... developer whose music search engine was featured on lifehacker The King of ... Citizens Number of countries represented: 59 10% Geography New England

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... a piece of lemon cupcake. Who says old dogs can't learn new tricks? ... zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014