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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  college for everyone in America. There really is a school for everybody. My ... you understand what characteristics they are looking for in order to ... headed for fifth. Both are in parochial school, as we live in Bridgeport

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  delivery for late February in order to make sure the house was sold and I had ... 'd ordered in December and was now facing the prospect of waiting 5 months for ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... more questions than it answered. “Two dozen pumpkins in just a few hours ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I ... should also be reasonably well-versed in it. For me recently, the goal has ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , and left me in a somewhat disheveled state. There's homework, lab ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... - and, for that matter, on me as well: tests, problem sets, untimely

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  in the world and being in an environment where people are always ... undetected concussions has become too prevalent in young athletes, and Ben, as a mechanical engineer, decided to address this issue by designing a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in ... , acting in plays and musicals for two years before I switched to the dark ... straightforward, actually - play some good music for people to enjoy while they work

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  resolve my issues for the night by taking it up to my room, effectively ... locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  thoughts into the mix. You know, for the record and all. Please keep in mind ... business of making "women in engineering" into a big issue just makes a huge ... . Another topic for another day.) In fact, even then...take it easy. I mean

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  the poster with the llama gets to be in the top half. +1 for the Pac ... I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  college essays, i was applying for random scholarships in a desperate effort ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  was held in Walker Memorial (Building 50) for new freshmen and their ... for $1.25 in about half an hour. Yeah, they were ridiculously happy ... , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big ... 't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... garden in Massachusetts. Even though we had already been engaged for months

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  before for renovation.[/annotation]  BIE (Burton-in-Exile) residents had ... courtyard trees were planted in September 1970 in time for the building ... -wide demand for the student owner of the motorcycle in the courtyard to move it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  one of my favorite areas in the city, and then stopped for Vietnamese ... getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... . This is a one-time-use card for the Moscow metro I bought one day in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  allowing freshmen to live in this place?" Dave, I'm waiting for the ... cats and which floors are smoking floors in EC (EC's webpage doesn't seem ... "smoking" doesn't mean that you'll be submerged in clouds of smoke. People

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  computer in addition to their Air. Wait for SSD prices to drop, then look at ... external graphics card. Maybe in several years they'll be awesome, but for ... I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  days to account for the way Christmas, New Years, etc fall in any given ... to participate in just about any of them. There are for-credit classes ... 't expect any posts for awhile, but who knows. Maybe I'll squeeze in a real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... provide kids with the tools to develop their own fun and innovative toys in ... Time for some more questions: MIT App Mom asked: "Maybe it's just me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  block in Germany, and you will never pay more than three euros for one ... issues with pages 5 and 7..." a German in the same situation might say ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007