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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of ... and it turns out the 2014 venue is MIT!   X-Men 3 and X

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit ... anticipation. If you're unfamiliar with the decade-long project, let me sum it up

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  to learn about what it's like to have free time when you're not burned ... this/I want to want to do it/I know I'll enjoy having done it once it ... (blog post to come, hopefully, but it might be a while 😅

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  states: MIT is committed to making every effort to ensure, within the ... students is as similar as possible to the experience of all other students ... the work we do in admissions, states that our mission is to "advance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  ’t focus appropriately the way I tell it to. Here are my meager efforts. Try ... disbelief and awe. It was highly amusing to watch them react to and interact ... environment. ESD.054 is more of a theoretical approach to leadership for which

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... pointed MIT out to us, so I knew it was close, but I didn’t know it was that ... pictures I looked up about it online, but we got there too late to see it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  of giant cards). Today while my code is running I am continuing to ... is very special to me. If you are an MIT freshman and you want to come ... REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... is an RSI alum, I am inclined to believe him.   *Note: Most ... precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  , it is impossible to know everyone who does music at MIT. But I can say ... has solidified my passion for it. Chris: What is the most unforgettable ... ) is the amount of dedication they put to everything that they do, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there ... . this is a disorienting realization to have because i’ve spent my whole ... rest of stem was interesting too anyway, all this is to say that lately

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... chunk of time to do it, and If anywhere we had the people who could ... -climbing-team. [annotation note='yes i know that it is cheesy but i am a cheesy person

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it ... students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  excuse is that I'm tired of uploading my pictures for this blog because it's annoying and blog entries without pictures suck). This, however, is too important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  ? Not enough at all? Maybe it is time for proud MIT nerds to reclaim the ... to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  week in December, and it is a lot of fun! Would highly recommend ... ! 18.125 is Measure Theory--it's a grad math course with a reputation for being dry but fundamental. We've learned about "measure", what it means to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  homeland of the Crow Nation, and is 95% Native American to this day. It is ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011