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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the ... she had been sitting. There was new grease to pick up, a new stench to ... bedbugs’ metallic hum flattened to a shrill, discordant buzz. In the kitchen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich ... back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  some hot sustenance from a Dunkin' Donuts and biked back to Boston as the ... So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  was pitched to me as a "cute place with baklava pancakes that have a ... , which were both delicious. According to my sister and a few other East ... I've never had Uyghur cuisine, so this was a great restaurant to order

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas ... you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... MIT is a part of the same world it is disrupting. Whether you want to or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... of what it's like to be a mechanical engineer at MIT, and something of ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... ="113884" /] oh, to be a mere celebration of oneself. [carousel image1 ... something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... chooses a few promising ideas and starts working frantically to get a model ... have to build a full working prototype of your product in the span of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... the opportunities available to the student body as a whole. But now I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu ... Cam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a ... DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is ... entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals! Finals are here!

  

  : A toughie, but I managed to answer most of the problems =) If you'd like to see what an MIT final exam is like, let me know, and I can post a ... I'm currently studying for what might turn out to be my last ever

  • by Bryan
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  to break my heart in a lot of ways. Anyway... Tonight feels like xmas eve. I distracted myself with a transition shave. It's supposed to say ... , anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new entries recently to keep folks entertained and informed). While I was busily reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  that's fine because she had a plethora from which to choose, including a ... . MIT was my dream since I was a freshman. I would make up passwords to my ... three winners and the only one to receive a Gold Medallion from Prince

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006