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• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  rewritten) specifically for you. I have the best job in the world, because I ... Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13 ... students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... elliptical quad in front of one of their libraries and for some reason is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... acting. Every week we're responsible for memorizing a monologue or a scene

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  way, the kanji for samurai （侍）is the same as "servant" in Chinese ... for the gyuudon - beef rice in a big bowl, 牛丼), you are reminded of ... environment for the Japanese. It encourages the workforce in Japan to relax from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many ... extra writing classes in her time at MIT, and she volunteers for ... difficulties stem from structural differences in the brain. Y, for example

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... the world always, overwhelming with its color. Do you feel in your bones ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... MIT, I was surprised to find fliers in the hallways advertising for SAT ... - what else can you ask for? In case you're wondering about the other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  held at MIT in December, so we talked about options for making classes ... campus in fall, so we're in the middle of hunting for a place to live in ... :30-3:00 I had a biweekly check-in for my communications job with the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  something in our lives we should be grateful for. So you know what would be ... anything especially special about the moment that you are in, but ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  : [MIT students] Subject: Candle-light Vigil for the Earthquake Victims in ... Victims in South Asia Come show your support for the Earthquake Victims in ... Steps Needed: YOU! **Coupons for candles are available for sale in lobby

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  Application Tracking. It can take 3 weeks for items to appear in Application ... MIT Admissions has extended the deadline for applying for regular ... button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  digest and spread information in our society. It was more difficult for me ... think I passed 11/13 assessments, which was far more than I hoped for in ... to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  chemistry professor and minor MIT celebrity for bringing in a glass of ... , and I stopped taking pictures for a little bit. In all honesty, the ... about how continuing support for renewable energy research would be key in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  's really important that you end up in the best dorm for you and don't succumb ... requirements for a degree in that major, as if you're getting a degree in just ... " units, for example, have been in biology.) You can count a single subject

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... dorm room, open my eyes for real, and take in the world. There's a lot ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and ... 've always had students send in information about cool projects that they were working on in their spare time. Maybe it was a really amazing new computer

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013