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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had ... the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side, we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up-the ... ’ve cooked in the past, if you’d like to look at it. My more recent food resume

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... welcoming and cutting-edge place to work abroad. The research that I chose to ... previously been exposed to, but I embraced the challenge and had the

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he answers questions for kids. I particularly like his answer to the last ... to change the world. That part was just icing on the cake. As he

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to ... it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  It's May 1! Welcome to the MIT Class of 2010! If you have sent back ... comments. We're excited to have you as a member of the class! We've spent the ... with their college t-shirt on, rightly proud of their future home for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday ... ! Rats, foiled again! I also hope to catch up on blog questions as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  eyes, I'm back in the car with my dad, listening to the game on the radio ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on ... with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  caught up on all the sleep I missed during term (for some reason, while I ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... , I take the train to Lausanne, and find the boarding house that I'll be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  The Tech, went on a field trip to MassWeb, the newspaper's publisher ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of ... -night adventure in the MIT tunnels in which he surprisingly relied on a lot of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  I've taken care of all my graduation requirements. On my way to turn in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend Akhil '05 MEng '06, who is the only other person from my high school to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a ... producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught ... entitles Everybody Loves A Math Joke is now the most popular post ever on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus ... stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and ... street. As I walked to the bridge, I took another picture. People had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus ... interdisciplinary approach to advancing the fight against cancer. This multi-faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice ... number or acronym. MIT's majors and minors are listed on our site. And the
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... , we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and ... that admissions offices may keep students on a wait list through the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  -making process (the part where he explains his thoughts leading up to using vinegar to slow the breakdown of pectin in the potatoes is pretty cool). As ... The weather sobered up just in time for CPW, and we celebrated the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012