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• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to ... decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the ... hope about the ice cream half-expected the ice cream to be at the top of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  closest friends in freshmen year, which led to me losing them. I was not the ... . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding school in the country’s capital. Mirroring Nigeria’s religious demographic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... another friend 2 while friend 1 was in a meeting 7:15 pm – took the bus to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  , and are used to taking physics class in which the purpose is for us to learn more physics. In this class, the purpose is for us to learn ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... 's Housing Adjustment Lottery gave me the chance to move in there. There ... wasn't for me, though. This is the point of the Housing Lottery in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  fellowships (AHHHHHH!!!!!!), and said goodbye to the NRAO, and the building in ... , thanked Ed Murphy, and said goodbye to McCormick, the building in which I ... longer living in Charlottesville. I said goodbye to the brick house on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... ), what MIT's role ought to be in national and global energy policy, the ... -- "Impossible is Nothing"), and the way we're taught to think rather than

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the ... ordeal was over. (The same will happen to most of you!) Things aren

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... . There is no preference in our process for early applicants. We use the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  's what matters the most. And in the end, I just want to say thanks to the ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... week, Ben came back to MIT to say one final goodbye to everyone in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  have never taught it before, so the most honest answer is "I don't know ... approximation; I'll adjust things the second time I teach it. My intent is to ... statistics from the Tech today, let me paraphrase it in one Marilee Jones quote

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  anywhere and there's so much stuff to do for college kids. I love that the ... , have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy ... people will actually laugh and won't shun them to the library. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  - it is in this spirit that we, the MyMIT bloggers, seek to honor MIT ... . Content caters in large part to the demands of the audience, who can email ... features. Oh, I learned so much in the months that followed. First, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year ... excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  39 tabs open in Chrome (which is apparently the threshold at which the ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word ... uninterestingly benign. No face-sized spiders in sight. Most of the staircases in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real ... been to 10 MIT weddings in the last 5 years from various college friends

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  amateur astronomer in Colorado, appears to have one of the most accurate ... written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012