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• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a few days to be tourists and see Macchu Picchu. The picture is a picture ... in fact (Southern Hemisphere just has to be different, doesn't it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay ... is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  , you may be wondering, dear reader, why I'm pontificating about the joys of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off of linear algebra and eigenvalues for a little bit by blogging. And

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred ... itself hacked. Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl More photos can be found here ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his ... -vehn-se-nup' But given that science likes to redefine itself every so often, it may

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 MIT Admissions Statistics Summary statistics from the past year.

  

  By popular demand, below you'll find admissions statistics from this past application cycle. These numbers will be posted on MyMIT later this summer. I also hope to post an enrolling class profile and more statistics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  seasons go by.) When this happens, the setting sun can be seen from the far ... , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... , a reference to Stonehenge.
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I used to be where they are [annotation note="except not really ... ="though I am trying to be better about this one"]I blog less.[/annotation] I ... , and then another, and then I'll be staring straight down the road to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  place where I was going to be stimulated and driven to learn more. Some ... school in Texas because I wanted out. I really wanted to be in an area where there was a lot to do outside of just being at school. Sample

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you ... MIT almost exclusively refer to their majors by number unless they are ... harder than it looks. :) Each unit is supposed to be equivalent to one hour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the ... The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be ... happening at this juncture. Decisions will be available to those who meet all ... . We're on schedule to release MIT admissions decisions online at 12:00PM

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind ... working on my own terms. Also, being able to watch Avatar: The Last

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... about whether she’s going to be a scientist or an engineer.) And I have ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. It satirizes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern ... to admit fewer than 20 students. It is a difficult process: as usual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  then tended to be on well-defined routes. To my grandparents in Utah or ... of ads looking for long-term roommates (I have places to be in the ... . The most real world part of my summer might have to be my job though. It

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  felt no longer threatened by their presence; I grew to like it. It ... an event hosted by my dorm building. I became so attached to the little ... birds singing. I miss it sometimes. It used to be a charming and peaceful

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  discussions that one could also explore.  If you go all that way back to episode ... I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025