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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... unfortunate jokers decided it would be a good idea to deface the remainder of ... Massachusetts Avenue, and happens to be one of the coolest people I know. ;-) I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  . And hey, while we're all waiting for the Opera to show up a little closer to home, why not help the Personal Robotics Group train the next ... One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  I knew my way around. Why rock the boat? Needless to say, I have been ... you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... the familiar faces you have grown accustomed to? Most importantly, would

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  the world, I guess. But it's not a weird thing to be a female scientist ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to ... engineers at MIT, it's also not a weird thing to be a female engineer here

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  ? Questions from last entry will be answered when I get back to Beantown. Well ... I humbly consider to be the most superior Brass Rat ever. (Hee.) My ... -- not for Jack Bauer, but to represent the fact that MIT majors go from 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  completed applications (and 60 people started an app, but decided not to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known). There were many excellent ... ="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  . ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they were issued a fine, but if so, I'd be more than happy to help defray the ... ; Aerodynamics was the reason the license plates weren't attached to Tesseract

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in ... . From what I hear, MIT students tend not to do as well on the exam as they ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  social life. i want to be the kind of person everyone wants to date, they ... : it’s really hard to be noticed, so i want to be the kind of person that ... .2540 nanotechnology: from atoms to systems, which is why i am enrolled in the class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  . i used to think a lot about all the other paths i could be living ... eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... series of existential crises because i realized i didn’t really want to be

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  for EA will be extended to accommodate things. Also, Grommit (where's Wallace?) commented after my last post about not being able to fit ... know about. Send it to the usual Admissions address and be sure to put

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now ... . Most of this advice is paraphrased from people that I consider to be mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  out to the lounge at one in the morning and see people working. It's not ... the net and the court and your opponent. Not to mention that the way you ... hallways will no longer be painful to walk through. Eventually.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in ... twice on Friday night. The other movie will show twice on Saturday night

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  - if you aren't the sh*t, you're not going to get into MIT. Having said ... split into two or three, but I didn't want to dominate the homepage. :-) ------------------------------------------------------- Campus Preview Weekend Registration Deadline The deadline to register for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  've been meaning to write about poetry. I'm taking the 21W.771 Advanced ... enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... under the rug, but many people also manage to balance a passion for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two younger brothers went to college. Since the youngest Peterson will be ... , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  . We welcome them to campus, where they will join the similarly ... blogs will stay open for a bit longer for students to continue with the ... ’s mission to use math and science to improve the world. We had more Early

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  professor. Their children will probably grow up to run the world. -------- ... to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not ... that there are still no answers to the most basic questions. Physics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006