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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem myself to you applicants and prefroshers and even preapplicants out there, I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at Virginia Tech Date: April 17, 2007 To: [email protected] Reply-To: sh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you. We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you, talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously competitive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• 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…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... , since she's always loved musical theater, began to throw around the idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting and exploring MIT, or who are concerned about changes to their academics ... looking forward to beginning her university studies this fall, so I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered ... CPW, so I have absolutely no clue how this event’s supposed to go, even

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but it's not as convenient as I think when I have to lug it around between

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  Hi folks, I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to ... . Decisions will be available to those who meet all of the following criteria ... unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early Action and

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet ... a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... .704,[/annotation] [annotation note="Intro to Videogame Theory"]CMS.300 ... being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  1. Reply to random email asking for Tim volunteers. As soon as it ... wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  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 to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn’t want me to succeed, no matter what platitudes might escape their lips. It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer - far, to time unknown To post-MIT - start setting our sights I do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of ... "), touristy ("Have your parents take you to the North End"), or non-MIT/Boston-specific ("Go to a formal"). I've never understood the attraction of formals

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... [/annotation] agreed that this would be hard, but I really would like to graduate ... what MIT is like; you need to do something, but it is very hard, but you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because, no matter how smoothly you try to form your sentences, they invariably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  crowd lining up all the way out to the building 56 Athena cluster ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free ... , here to talk about his movie, Doug Liman. DOUG LIMAN: Hello, my name is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008