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• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my ... with my hands. I knew MIT’s motto, and the sort of activity he meant, but

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted ... reconvene and discuss the waitlist. You can see a lot of answers about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  retrospect. There were lots of nice things about it, but the activation energy of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the ... experience the wonder of exploring them. I don't want to be stuck in Boston

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away ... hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life ... ring and I got involved with lots and lots of activities. Over the years

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  . Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather the numbers of all these classes. So you end up with this: Day 1: 6 ... flavor text. The flavor text is stressing different components of time

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of ... -Japan Program 2011 Internship: NAIST, Nara The project: After spending much of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  matches my artistic outlet of choice--sewing! My now most famous work: the ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... 'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. The first or second day of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read ... . a virgin door closeup on the flair featuring two years worth of door ... I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  of 25 African American students under the age of 21 who are making extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the student profiles, I realized that THREE of the young people featured are

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn ... different types of documentary, from the classically framed interview to cin ... not the same). One of my favorite films that we watched is Chronique d

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I ... with Ed, one of the instructors, a transfer student was getting advice on ... , just more questions, and the lab is the epitome of taking an idea

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted to talk about some of the processes that went into making sure

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus ... own. Was I dreaming? There are a couple of proposed solutions to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time ... fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... Eric Lander, one of the leads on the Human Genome Project, is a lecturer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  Women in 2007 Member of the 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team ... beautiful smile that you'd think that she's the daughter of a Crest employee ... step of the problem once again, and walked out with a smile on her face

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog ... wouldn’t know. as soon as i got deferred the thought of reading the blogs ... lot of time thinking about you over the next few days. i wonder how all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020