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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  , a prosthetic socket that will allow the user to reshape the socket for ... little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... ugly mechanical monstrosity on the left to the more modern and sleek gate

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  interest of privacy, but this has got to be both the most blissful and the ... to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I ... meaningful and interesting out of context (the context being the stories that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  of the company, university, research institute (if you will be UROPing ... DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson is the first artist to have five top ten ... comments, which I will respond to in an untimely fashion. I'll let you know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  across the river in Boston. It's basically an excuse for companies to give out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... demoing to every mascot I saw. First was Wally, the Red Sox mascot. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern ... share beds, it was not so much cramped but cozy. The first few days our ... that we could cook ourselves breakfast every morning and not starve to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options ... see what you did with the options available to you no matter where you
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no ... 's definitely not hard to get an internship for the summer. First, there are ... are not so lucky as to escape the physics reqirement. Any more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  we try to fix them. After all, I want the smart home devices that will ... the song is from 1933, so that should be my oldest song and not whatever ... long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  . The four-square Brain and Cognitive Science logo was begging to be ... the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my friends seem to be coping pretty well. In fact, a few students apparently

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  ", and not just because of the whole Tom Cruise/Oprah thing. Rather, he was ... tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review: All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  networking and discreetly stealing free pens. Not to be outdone, students who ... In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  leishmaniasis which can be fatal. The city: Paris has a lot to offer and truly all the weekends there are not enough to explore the city. The city ...  internship gave me an incredible opportunity to not only understand a great deal

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  'd need to call the main number and be more specific. guy: well, i was ... forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest ... But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  final proofs next week - and then it's off to the presses! I can't wait to hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next ... to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  two teachers explore the coast... And sunset... Not to sound corny ... 't let the business casual fool you. That's not how the night ended. The Korean people did not forget that 12/31 was the night before 2012 and we

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change ... heighten the visual impact of the performance, attempting to pierce the ... , common humanity. It was hard to have the drive to continue writing ten

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  and what being an EC means to them. So, I’ve spent the last several ... Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West Coast. After an early morning trip to the Manchester, NH airport (that 4

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... storage unit delivered to the dorm easily beat a stressful, last-minute rush ... guaranteed graduation or even just the ability to gather with friends, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We ... do not have a preference. You should take the tests for which you ... category, we will use the test which makes you look best. Q. I am an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007