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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and ... ) This is my first semester with no finals, so Dead Week marks the start of ... semester, despite the challenges of doing group projects over Zoom. I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... so far.     By the time I took the pictures, that evening’s denizens of ... Destiny, one of our two remaining all-male floors (The other is Foo, also on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  start to finish x) It does an excellent job with addressing the moral ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  because they don't think it will do any good. In order to address this, the ... . You've been wonderful. Keep fighting the good fight, and in the words of ... Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of being the Undergraduate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  very good, too. Can these "make up" for the lack of "outstanding" grades ... good chance of finding success the second time around. It all depends on ... optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  crucible slipped and fell down the sleeve of my lab coat. I shrieked and started flailing my arm like a maniac. The crucible shot out of my sleeve at ... training its next generation of people to unravel the mysteries of space. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'm trying to put off getting to the point of this entry? Anyway, some time ... Boston, which was one of the most life-changing experiences I've ever been ... and as such I was stuck next to a man with the least accurate sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... , Amira, Ari, and I made this unfolding zine that summarized some of the core themes of the class: [carousel image1="115118" image2

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  webcomics (Heartstopper, Lore Olympus, Check, Please!) and a good chukn of the ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  which is best addressed than neglected"..."issues with the organization of ... Links meeting, one of the officers addressed a question that we all had to answer ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  pretty wet. I looked at a nearby shop. The address in the window said "1810 ... reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks. It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working ... all the good fortune we could get, our huge line of shouting foreigners (most of whom were a good deal larger than the average Japanese person

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... couple hours about the unbridled stresses of life and then hitting publish

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... at the end of an Ashante concert. (This is NOT an endorsement of ... that do not exist... irregardless of how much you orientate the direction

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the ... 't have any impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Cline made the alumni of Stuyvesant currently attending MIT (Stuyvesant being the majority of the room) speak, as well as Alums from other high ... of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  of Student Pugwash. Pugwash exists to address the effects of science ... No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT ... the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... miles ever before, and so I've pretty much experienced the pinnacle of bad flights - zero leg room, back row seating with the constant smell of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... , reading things, lying down on the other side of the room, chatting people ... served hot chocolate in the middle of lobby 10. this fall's finals week was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020