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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Building 46." This is part of MIT-speak. Here's a primer. Each of MIT ... the founding of MIT's course in that area. For example, Courses 1 ... ; Engineering (founded as Geology and Mining; Geology is now a part of Course 12

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand ... old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist ... . MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food, but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  old this phone is. Most of the screen has broken off. My girlfriend ... random songs with the names of Pokémon.  Right before ... , but we decided to forbid the use of Ctrl+F, which made it difficult to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  /20 (which is also my friend Ben's birthday), get ready for the most ravishing series of blog entries you have ever seen. To entice you, here are the topics of these entries: 1. a trip to the Lyric Stage Company with some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  Pi day is almost here, when all the hard work from both applicants and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... ’ve never been romantically drawn to that kind of person—the Forbes 30 Under

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the ... premise of Reawakening is that our hall has its own dark god, Krotus. Krotus is painted in the lounge, and in many other places on the hall, and he

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary language, here is the official statement about what we require: SAT Reasoning ... it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... is the first of my two Taiwan stickers that were designed by artist

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  ’ll look back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the ... admissions today on MIT FB, and it reminds me of the time when I applied to MIT ... Pattie Maes of MIT Media Lab, talking about the most futuristic interfaces

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... . Dunstan in the East Church Garden).  I think there is a quiet resilience to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the ... certain sections of those allow cats. The official cat policy is spelled out ... ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  became the structures that we see today. One such large-scale structure is the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003 ... differences. She has one of the most elegant writing styles and her stories are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  admissions folder. This is when we are happiest. The interviews are very ... 'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... , compared with 22% who choose to have an interview. The reason for this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  . CES is the Mecca of the technology world. It’s a trade show - not open ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an International Student Association/Community?

  The International Student Association (ISA) was established to bring together the diverse international community at MIT and to support international causes on campus.