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• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  can answer this question: when New Orleans rebuilds, what can be done to prevent this from happening again? How would you design it? To applicants ... hit - how are you doing? Where are you staying? What can we do to help

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  obsessed with space exploration shows. Used to watch it with my family and ... empire and tries to gather people to fix things himself. It's based off of ... yet to read so I can't really compare the accuracy of the adaptation

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving and teaches 6.034: Artificial Intelligence. I think it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  get used to it after a couple of sessions. She asked whether anyone had ... entertaining Youtube viewers. It then occurred to me that everyone might feel ... (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday

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

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... fewer applicants this year - fully intending to use the waitlist in order ... all of this is that it would have been impossible to choose between you

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  relentlessly upon Cambridgians' freezing bodies, the confetti to its gleeful ... carnivorous appetite. 1:00 PM I've gained entrance to the club, and can ... architectural similarities to a brick oven, and while this turns it into a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT ... few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... it. Nobody likes that guy. You don't want to be that guy, do you?) 4

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  sorry i don't know]. but i didn't expect it to hit so soon. i remember ... hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... today?" and then do it. The rest of this post has nothing whatsoever to do with MIT life. It has to do with the non-MIT life: the pre-MIT life, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to ... didn't get to see it all year. And usually during the school year, Adam ... time I reorganized my closet (I'm not even kidding -- I used to have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  yet. Then it was 6:30. It had just begun to dawn on us that we were ... had assumed it to be—harder to come up with plot, easier to invent ... actually print out when we told it to do so, I still felt like strangling my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you time to send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  for undergrad. You'll have the chance to succeed wherever you end up. It ... ...I can empathize with the applicant pool. At least you guys get to see ... comments on this entry, and I'll answer them. It saves me having to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I've been spending hours in used bookstores and swimming and taking deep breaths, and it's been.. really nice. That doesn't mean I've forgotten about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  wrong. I had learned all the material, and even taught some of it to ... and to learn the material in a way that I'd remember it. They also told ... because the model I had formed in my mind wasn't robust enough to handle it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  more papers. It used to hold more small trinkets, but I never put them ... to me from me for my 21st birthday. Its lid broke during the move from ... algorithms. Max kicks my butt: he can solve it superfast. Bottom left: A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... —  could use a bit more time to get everything together for their college ... on in the world, it is a confusing time, and I want to make sure it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  it's guaranteed to be a good night. Until then, I'll just sit around ... fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... me, she's happer than she looks. That's it. I'm all pictured out. (Is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  up using their own explosives to "detonate it," deem it inert, and then let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  ) can score an online reservation for Jean-Georges and expect to be served ... curtailed because I'd rather use my tongue to smother every last molecule of ... then winning the lottery. Don't ask me to describe it any further than

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009