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• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  soft-on-the-inside, crusty-on-the-outside loaf of peasant bread ... characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  missed out on getting the best cooking book of all time at Barnes and Noble ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... , when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the projects I've been working on at my UROP for the past two years. So first ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  Pig...no joke :^) So as of yet, you have not been introduced to my best ... getting our fill of food, we went to the Cincinnati Reds game where they actually won a game for once. Highlight of the Game: When the mascot did the

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

    On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks ... precision (5 birds were perfectly piled up on top of each other) but ... finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... we needed to go pick up, so on top of having a lot of responsibility ... military leaders. It certainly hasn't been easy, especially on top of

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... makes a big deal of the student's "scoring the magic 1600 on the SAT." Now ... same as any higher score she could receive on the retest. One of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  rest of the communications team here), and so on. Hopefully it will be an ... arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  released on March 14 -- Pi Day. This year, decisions are being released at 9 ... students will receive information on their financial aid package and Campus ... year. We admitted 1715 students for an admit rate of 9.6%, or fewer than

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want ... week. Thankfully my tests are spread out, allowing me to focus on one ... turn on my music and just nap in my bed, forgetting about how difficult

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  . Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20 million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  : Focus on taking care of yourself, your family, your community, and your ... that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your mind, and that you may need to focus on other things, or be temporarily
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  of all, I wanna know what the nightlife is like on the MIT Second, is ... ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of ... ="A little brave to post this on a public platform where any of them can read ... common trend on TikTok of girls asking their guy best friends what they

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008