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• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other updates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling ... -year-old a short bus ride away. One day, while I was explaining how to add

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the ... students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership ... 's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on to our suitcases. I probably should’ve put my suitcase on the luggage shelf above our seats, but I didn’t think I was strong enough to lift it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break ... .” Mystery resolved, the fruitcake was donated to Random Hall and East Campus, to be divided unequally amongst 400 or so residents. 2.The Choir Party

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... of navigating to just the topic you want. You know that bright, rainbow ... key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  on campus—and there shouldn’t be any reason for me to like it this much ... lanyard holds the key to my soon-to-be home, even if it lacks keys to any of the many residence houses. I’m not going to say that I’m going to love

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... to Earth like Floo powder. The babies are after me, I think, as my ... to school 3,000 miles away means I'm racking up more frequent flyer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... route of the flight (Phoenix to Tucson) was over the desert? Just thought I'd throw that out there. What a great town. I got a chance to be

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... . They had beaten five other teams, but lost to Ed's Elephants due to ... weBabble would be on their way to the championship. Toxic Algae had

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... 's all year and still happily gone off to graduate school in the fall. At

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  all your responses to the lynn/lonn/line poll. My high school math teacher's name was Lynn, so I guess I've just been indoctrinated to call it ... , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  panned out. Oops. However, I am finally going to write this entry, which I intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... weekend was go down to the Hatch Shell on July 4th to see the Boston Pops ... he saw was exactly the same... but I'd be willing to bet that there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  The Quiz: HEY GUYS UPDATE THE LINK DOESNT WORK ANYMORE ILL TRY TO FIX ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms overall. The plan was to create some questions and disseminate them through

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day ... , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... letters. They also didn’t look or feel like other silk fabrics I was used to ... it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the trek across the Harvard bridge from their house to MIT. The pledge

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023