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• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making the campus such a special place and give a special shout-out to those at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  home, to return to the hand of its Master. They are one, the Exam and the ... exams to the practice fields. Once you have seen them, you will not break ... , and decided on this one for brevity's sake. Still, you must know, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid ... given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took ... fun at MIT I decided to stay an extra year and finish my master's degree

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  applications, there much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but ... , commas, and empty roads, and has always wanted to grow up to become a ... ; it was a privilege and a joy to read your applications, and we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  night through Saturday night. Bring an umbrella, raincoat, and/or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... now, at last, to the knowledge that our rich and prosperous nation ... resources. Even more significant, and perhaps more threatening to our pres

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  ="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior ... to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... , Okay, I guess certain aspects aren’t that much different than how I was

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the ... almost 8,000 emails to students, teachers, guidance counselors, and others ... exchange to help you learn English and acclimate to MIT. If you were someone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals ... undergraduates to flip their brass rats around and wear them the other way: while

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  withheld dinner from me until I agreed to go to the movies. Being wily and ... think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed ... about this, this quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came to ... doled out to him by both Fudge and Scrimgeour, the Prime Minister cries

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  decided that was fine; i liked cooking for myself too much to risk being ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... put off, and anyway, i'd decided separately to[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  and embellishing: But what if the artist deliberately intended to create ... drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the ... is going to be so fun! And then we had Matlab assignments. *I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  important my relationships are to me, and how much I'll miss them. the ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... happened. I've changed so much and learned so much. despite this, I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly ... 't seen much snow until coming to MIT. Nemo is by far the most amount of snow I've ever seen, and I've still been trying to figure out how to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  took nearly 5 hours. And the food was simply amazing. We were invited to ... a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... so we had to explain it to him), Formula 1, and other life in Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  of power. And so now to the afternoon of April 2, and the arrival at ... to be going to this production. But we were going for free! :-) And we ... in various ways by computer, then projected onto to create, by turns

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I ... month to sing science fiction and fantasy folk music, called "filk" for ... the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and who show up to conventions

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009