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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  I tried to start sounded really, really boring ("So... I'm at home, it ... temperature. Surprisingly, this isn't as painful as I expected it to be. And if ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  can consider the scale to be logarithmic.) The first sign of impending ... they have actual job titles? Can I abbreviate this to “BPAFOSIPIDC ... individual, and it retains to this day some of the scars of its exhilarating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 24. And as usual, we are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see ... Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... up a story like this. You can read about the entire saga here - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  tell. It is for this reason that I try to be as tolerant and lenient with ... befell us, and on top of all of that, it seemed like our classes decided to ... prefrosh makes me very happy; I love enthusiasm and I want to maintain it. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  seized it and headed out to Middlesex Fells, where we had an absolutely ... won; it was an excellent and funny feel-good start to the holiday season ... can rely on and friends to keep us going. This year had a lot of bad in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight ... from Snakes on a Plane. I'm not really sure why we were doing it at CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  masculinity. I reread my application essays to see if something gave it away. B ... meetings. It's a great way to start off the week. How are your Mondays? Mine ... to students who need it. Their application was due right after

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could ... , my dance team's annual performance. I'd go to class from 10 am to 1 pm, go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  think people are understandably concerned about whether you can continue to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... soccer or the patience to watch it, but seeing a goal finally being made ... (recommendations?). Basically, it’s the time to become a Renaissance Man! – someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  particular because I was incredibly homesick. It’s not that I struggled to make friends at MIT, but more so that it was hard to develop strong bonds with ... , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  animation will play over it! That semester, we both got to make our own murals ... didn’t know what it was called, but I knew I just had to come back and ... . To me, it radiated colors and inspiring energy of so many kinds, in so

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... it. As I'm writing about the film, I'm reminded that Douglas Adams, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Random Variables with Prof. Richard Dudley. It was a class in probability ... professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  graduating seniors - I'll miss you).  Can't wait to meet 2019s in the fall! ... also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  -hand corner. My idea needs 100 votes to make it to the second round, and the ... anyone can post an idea for making America better. The ten ideas that receive the most votes will be presented to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008