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• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of those buildings on the north end of campus. Of course, I played it off ... DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... both broken, though, so I guess it's in the spirit of our lab to recycle ... seems to help the functioning of the plug flow reactor. Sometimes he bumps

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  "]sleep,[/annotation] but lots of fun.   Allow me to explain from the beginning, though ... corner of my heart. There’s a sense of wonder to the idea of an airport ... the rigor of British airport security. It’s hard to describe, but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it ... victim to the clutches of notion.so. It's just a really convenient website ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  smart to go down any not-so-good street. (www.newenglandliving.org) And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  okay?" Yes!  One of the best things about MIT is that you don't have to ... week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  and used to accentuate curves of the face (provides high contrast). The ... appears to be a part of the background. Classic three-point lighting ... of the line... I'd probably know how to do this if I'd gone to lecture

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on!" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  's resplendent pantry gives substance to my dream of becoming the world's first ... I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas ... 't. 10:32 pm: I once tread water for ten minutes as part of the MIT swim

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  it's like to be the person on the other end of the line when you place ... beeps a couple of times to let me know someone's on the line. I open up a ... &T provides MIT users with all of the stuff they'll need to get through their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  , because I need fuel for the TRULY OBSCENE AMOUNT OF WORK I HAVE TO DO OVER ... magnesium. Based on that, I calculate the radial velocity of the star. Calculate the radial velocity of the star! By looking at its spectra, which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  smart, the draw of an amazing academic school is too much to resist. MIT ... championship level of the NCAA tournament. This is such a cool award to win ... famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  material -- sets out not simply to educate but to also be part of the early ... accessible to everyone and enable the next wave of personalized manufacturing ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The ... third walk from Next House of the day, all before classes even start. (To ... to the extent of being late to class. (It really was an amazing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  must come face to face with the implications of his increasingly souring ... very end of the movie) are completely only present in the movie. To be ... British. Try catching him slip out of the American accent that he had to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally ... was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... sometime before the New Year’s countdown. Thinking it was just to wish me a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  majority of MIT students are smart enough not to fall for the "politics" part ... 't you apply that to the place where you live? Oh yeah, and regardless of ... batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... differ between competitions from 4 to 6). Of the 23 participants, 13 were ... of a possible 40 points to win a silver medal at the 1974 International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST ... basketball court. The robots are based off of common kits to which teams add ... are then sent out to at least one of 57 Regionals across the world. Then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  to life - the sim version of me that is not only an accomplished ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023