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• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  exciting for two reasons... first, it was my first ride in an ambulance ... So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton ... -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi recitation contest Pie eating contest Free pie for everyone! And don't forget

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the ... blogger. I've been following Matt's blog for several months now, and if you ... Matt through mutual friends and frequently drop into his office for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will ... ! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site and also the Orientation 2005 site. Thanks to Ann's blog for drawing our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  foundation for study in your major. In your second semester, you might add ... all of our students are broadly educated in the physical, natural and
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process ... citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ignition taught me something new. For my 2.651 D-Lab Energy class, we made briquettes (a dense fuel dominant in developing countries). They can be used

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ...   I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  recognize you in the words as written. If so, it's probably a good essay for ... We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  discounted seat for only ~$20 in the outdoors section. All photos courtesy of ... in the decision, then probably in something else, if you keep your mind ... , that gives 84 TED talks you can watch in your rapidly diminishing waiting

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no introduction--unless of course you've never heard of him, in which case I'll just

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  MIT in 1934 “for all who might be interested in knowing more about the ... applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier ... thing for the idea that she and her team came up with. Since (a) both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer ... . I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek ... I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  provide free 8-10 minute massages for Burton-Conner students who sign up in ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  rule, cheer for any team which asks us to. The water polo coach came in ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair ... experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  reasons for your decisions. In addition to the brief directives provided in ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... coming back felt surprisingly different after having lived in Tokyo for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009