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• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I write this (8:15am on April 19), one of the bombers is reportedly dead ... . The Office of Admissions is closed today, April 19, and our information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... is the first of my two Taiwan stickers that were designed by artist

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2016! I found this picture of you on the Internet:          Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  ? :) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- EDIT. I've received some feedback about people related to some of the ... ! Please check out the picture of dinner below and the links, and I hope to ... :) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Here's the final dinner sitting in front of me right now! And trust me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’m Mollie! I’m one of the five or six(?) original bloggers, and I was the ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... specify subtype and area identity in the projection neurons of the cerebral

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  think about them changes--for the sake of argument. Though I left my last post on a happy note, in actuality, the relief of spring break only lasted so long. The calm before the storm you might say. My second round of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  this a bit more this IAP. I’ve liked the feeling of stretching my body while simultaneously strengthening it. I want to explore the feeling of exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  the vast majority of applicants, most of whom were qualified to be here. To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of the best. Don't let this stop you from doing all of the great things in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... piece of art that changes every time you look at it. I wonder about the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  nearly normal version of the MIT experience. For one (positive) thing, my ... ’m in a weird purgatory of majors. Hmm calibration implies the existence ... changed majors to [annotation note="one variation of the mechanical

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the 77th MIT-connected winner of the Nobel Prize. My favorite quote from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  waited for the bus, but it was kind of cold so we did the group huddle. My review of the movie: TWO THUMBS UP. ... . Diana boarding the "Knight Bus" (ie the Big Yellow Bus) with her ticket

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications ... been answered at the end of it.) ... Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  Now that the class of 2025 has arrived, they are, expectedly, chock ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... acapella group, a sorority, MIT Symphony Orchestra, and join the exec of your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class ... my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006