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• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  that the students and community I would be joining at MIT would be ver ... the highest GPA and to be smarter than the people around you. Whether ... walked into my former chemistry teacher's office (he was now the principal

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  the morning. The worst was that they matched: how nice that pearl stud ... pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose between dangly earrings and studs. But what if I got an infection from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  after everything happened because he continued being friends with the ... really grown up. "I feel like in high school you really used to be the ... again. I was going to be seeing him for the first time in maybe 8 months

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... . Five of the eight people in crabmeats are from southern California so we made sure we would see each other over break. On the 23rd I met up with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  I don't usually watch TV but recently I saw a few episodes of The Colbert Report. Pretty hilarious stuff. Then the other day Chris Peterson (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  for being the best Tim we could ask for. ... I began writing the script in July 2011. We started filming in September. We recorded the music in March. We premiered in in April. That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your ... .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... , working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  Hi!! I've been super busy over the past few weeks with various final ... theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an ... language developed by two guys from the Media Lab (naturally...). So instead

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  , for the first time, wasn't too embarrassed to be the vocalist. I broke ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  pretty intimidated by the kids who could code. I remember being a first ... This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team ... about language models and AI bias! Step 0: Getting the internship Every

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  piercer named Owen. He allowed Priscilla and I to be in the piercing room ... , which can be hard to do by yourself for piercings not on the earlobe ... , piercings are a rite of passage. Aside from being super cute, my piercings are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... advanced 6-unit seminar class in the Biology department being run by a ... Snively would call this the bloggers' freebie post. I would disagree

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  't spit near the physics department without hitting a Nobel laureate. Being ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly straggling onto campus, and I could not be more psyched. Rush/orientation is my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... Opportunities Program. Click here if you want the official site. But the basic ... research. You know all those textbooks you read? The information had to come

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... the stuff that happened while I was home, except that not much really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place ... going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  design so that the ambulances can also be used to carry vegetables to ... , and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... took in the Fall of 2007 about Development. It's also known as D-Lab I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

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

  

  moving. The book comes out on April 4th, and she’ll actually be in ... 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

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008