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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  here: Doing this lab forces you to be up on the roof all hours of the ... 'll make it. I'm writing my paper on the dynamical (SO(4) rotational group) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  in my window which conveniently corresponds to the fact that I live on ... -related musings (as opposed to the completely random posts or deep and sometimes ... abundance of free time was a given) I’ve been spending less time on the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  the past preferred to release decisions on a Saturday; December 13 or ... Early Action updates Please continue to be patient with the ... recommendation on the application tracking system. Allow two weeks from submission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... hardbacks with pleasantly smooth covers, free tickets to the fancy Boston ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... feel like this sometimes too.) But don't fall victim to the TV or FB this ... taking cool photos to attempting to break the world record for mattress

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  wanted at least some way to mentally prepare before I read the words on the ... means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... know that many of you have experienced such disruptions due to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... 've told that story before. What I want to talk about, is a tiny detail on ... MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  the perfect essay so you'll have to rely on writing skills alone. I ... posted online) so that I'd have plenty of time to just roll the essay ... prompt, I have to just wait until I randomly come up with the perfect plan

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you ... to go to the MIT Literary Society Meeting or LucHa – are among the many

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  because someone or another recommended them to me. The notebook also means I ... . I love the feel of ink on paper, and there's a sort of thrill in ... and adding your own signature to the bottom and carefully putting the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  , which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on ... the table next to Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. Sigh ... On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  options if you choose to stay on campus. The fraternities ... situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here ... practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  impossible to process that this was it, maybe the last time I’m seeing these ... month, we traveled to the Boston and Springfield Planned Parenthood health ... the Youth Advocates got to share final thoughts and feelings. We went

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I ... visited the ruins, I went to the nearby lakefront beach. That's France ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  Chi Omega. Anyway, the point of this entry was to introduce you to yet ... , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc ... lovely spring afternoon, waiting to go on one of our social events: a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover ... , ladies and gents - THE MIT FRESHMAN'S GUIDE TO RECOVERING OWNERSHIP OF ... release the mailing list. Here's an example: To further sweeten the pot

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... through being the chef. It's the chef's job to 1. Come up with a menu, which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is ... students to attend than ever before. And I'll be working with the web team ... even though I'll be working on the weekend, it's still Friday; and even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011