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• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... read a description of the memorial written by Professor J. Meejin Yoon ... space for reflection. Inspired by the gesture of an open hand, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... level of chaos energy that really sets them apart. I don't know whether to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  (with documented process) that gets a stamp of approval from Keith gets ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  from?", and approximately ¼ of the time it was followed up by: "You mean ... of my most exciting moments to life.) I started my CPW experience by ... interviewed by folks from TechTV! (Kind of embarrassing now that I watch it

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... Jaleo,” by John Singer Sargent. Its impressive size and energy is

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  . Walking to the other side of the first floor, we pass by several common ... 'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  Festival itself. FoL was organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning ... sponsored by the Office of Digital Learning to highlight and address these ... inspirational events by industry leaders and instructors (videos of all events

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  -limbed apricot tree. Yellow roses bordered the edge of the courtyard by the house ... , surrounded by the white sides of the house and by the crumbling adobe brick ... ). Periods of life spent in the COCOON pattern are defined by retreat from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... knitted for me by Ruth '07? So, there's this report for 10.28 on the effect of hydrocarbon-coated magnetic nanoparticles on increasing diffusivity

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  , because as one of those people last year, I got brutalized by final projects ... were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of course, when a ... went. But for this term, it was kind of a blur. I couldn't really think

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  knowledge and the resources by which one can become educated. With all of us ... visited by Janet Napolitano, and PETA's Vice President of Policy, Bruce ... ;marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band ... rode a few years back along the shores of a beach in Nigeria. By rode, I ... : Ollie A senior named Luke begins by explaining that the creation of Ollie

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  other posters (one of them presented by a co-founder of Astronomy Picture ... a magical way of knowing that I was left confused by the response ... to party. On the last night, we rented out a club, and hundreds of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  other goals for the summer? To have one of these made by the end of the ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  , painful investment of energy. I started to envision what I could become with ... This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  by none other than my floor (Loop). At Random, each floor consists of ... entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... it on, considering that my room heater is consuming as much energy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of ... saddened by the loss of our schoolmates. As a result, MIT reexamined its own ... Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  didn't have the energy to fall apart in front of a near ... taken-aback by the chorus of "ANNAAA!"'s. They were always happy to see me ... lifestyle, independent of family and old friends, who were now one Atlantic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006