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• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... also switched majors to aerospace engineering. I had a long list of ... alternatively, 6.0001 and 6.0002. When my advisor asked me to make a graduation

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two ... ). Only two kids from my school applied to MIT early action - Curtis, a good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I ... in response to hearing a tiny fraction of his or her story. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... building, all are a little different than your ordinary structure. While some ... , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  comments are so genuine and thoughtful, and it really makes a difference to ... , Jenny A.), and it was really cool to finally get to meet you guys. Minus ... I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 25, 2021
• 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.

  

  , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated

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

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES ... breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared ... blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Restaurant & Bakery in Miami. After Miami, it was off to Florida's Gulf Coast, where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow). We'll be doing more travel together as a group to meet with prospective ... contact with us. Drop us a note to the waitlist email address. Keep us up to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  corner of their heart a little bit from time to time, well, here's my ... a particularly sinister view of what I'm trying to do here), I borrow ... these entries on a superficial level precisely so I don't have to make

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  information to match you with a host & living group. Some living groups are ... Floor. Give us a clue as to what will work best for you. We'll have a lot ... A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  to say it, but it clear to meIt lucky that Moon is not a cookie ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025