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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  of 25 African American students under the age of 21 who are making extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the student profiles, I realized that THREE of the young people featured are

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  goal of the GEL Program is to develop leaders, not recognize them and ... A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... confident in their the ability to “function effectively as a member of a team

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  huge chunk of money that is allocated to the floors to have activities ... 7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT ... different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain ... data to the schools where the challenge is proctored to help them ... their students can use additional assistance. Plus, Bebras' mascot is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  Classical Mechanics. This is the first MIT physics class that most first ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat ... ’re supposed to show up to the group meeting with final drafts, but my paper is

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  MIT is incredibly wired; wi-fi all over the campus. Students are ... hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... introspective, which is ultimately the most important part of this process ... saying “This is what I’m gonna do when I go to MIT!” Frankly, a lot of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of the Internet out of an abundance of caution. If you are getting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  % of the student body is enrolled in a music class*. We have a Pulitzer ... would be" to "what is". See the result of an unbelievable amount of hard ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  is less dangerous than a landslide, and no one minded the pools of ... months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of ... justice instead of problem sets for a night. The week continued. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of ... random laboratory with the unfortunate designation of a hard intro calc ... things within the entry area of the lab. So we exit Building 18, walk

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  performed by Pentatonix! Prelude by Dave Malloy Dave Malloy is the god of ... actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because ... list of all the stuff. We figured that some of ya'll might find this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle (and actually like a 17 min walk from Next House which is the furthest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  is a painting I created to explore the use of color, light, and shadow ... me refine it a bit. They asked me what the purpose of my request was ... used a tiny canvas instead of the ones included in the grant. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct culture and traditions. MIT housing is guaranteed for your entire
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  varsity sport. The range of gym classes is really outstanding, some of them ... lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute, and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  2004. This year, one of the TA's for that class is Wolfgang Ketterle ... Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  ="here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices ... summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  was very productive. (Dora points at how clean the room is) Look! I ... ? 14.01 is Microeconomics. 6.005 I think is officially called Elements of ... I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016