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• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New World couldn't pronounce the Nahuatl word "ahuacatl," so they simply chose

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow ... as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena ... time. Good night everyone. I'll post the final version of my thesis

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along with it, the 2007 MIT Mystery Hunt! This years hunt will begin on Friday, January 12th at 12pm in Lobby 7. Thanks! Jennifer for The Evil Midnight

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  Episode 6 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is available today. Stories include highlights from this year's 2.007 Robotics Competition, the "seeing machine", and the awesome Disco Dance Floor (!). Check it out: Hosting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cross-Cultural Conference

  

  I'm going on a cross-cultural conference/retreat tomorrow. 2006 is the first year they're holding this event, so I really have no idea what to expect, but here are some of the topics they are planning on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I think my soul is still roaming around the south of France. Anyone have five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And ... -becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for-the-past-month-is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... ! Pretty Room Next Year I got the room I wanted! It is pretty and large and ... 's favorite foods!! This Place is Beautiful The peaceful walks

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  know that as well. A great deal is involved in the admissions process ... Waiting is hard. Waiting is incredibly hard. Well, I guess that ... the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed ... Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... with the time but I had a busy Wednesday okay"]today[/annotation], I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... sign taped beside the family computer: Sam's Mom always goes that extra mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  their finest. The song is "There Goes My Baby" originally by Usher; solo ... audio is all a cappella sung by the Logs, and was recorded and edited by ... As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning ... obliterate all memory of even the tough as rocks New England winter and life is ... favorite skirt thinking this sun is exactly what I need so today I take the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  the hell the Biot-Savart equation is, and make you work harder on your MIT application than on any other. (And that last reason, my friends, is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  fact we're preparing for it on campus already, there is still the ... is in store: Saturday San Francisco/Bay Area meeting in the home of ... Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  food (this makes freshmen 15 unavoidable...). Anyways the point is that I ... events have happened in my life. I experienced the best FPOP ever aka DPD ... , survived a hurricane, visited too many club booths at the activities midway

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the ... and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the ... and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  what Pi Day brings, so our best advice is to savor the little moments and ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow the instructions. If you still need help after that, feel free to email

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024