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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  meaty fruit roll-up. The good news is that the plates of dumplings are ... time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was ... Hampshire on our dorm's camping trip. Having the option of a day hiking up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  right: pain does have utility, just not the type of pain we create for ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends ... creation of plays about science in addition to discussing the cultural impact

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is ... , piercings of all sorts, bare feet, tattoos... We tell both the interviewers and the application readers to be careful not to fall into trap of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you ... address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... based on the availability of alumni in your region of the world.  It is ... interviews Below are some of the past blog posts about interviews gathered in

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so ... was fairly packed, with much of the MIT community representing, as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  : very few of the photographs below are originals) Beacon Hill Boston ... - J.P. Licks Does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard ... The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... Peeling back the hood of the code scares me, because underneath it all it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  despite being one of the biggest proponents of said rule, but let's not dig ... , a co-op adventure of sorts. I don't regret any of my time spent in the ... safety net. the good I'm trying to navigate things on my own, like how do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... more. Mind you, the HASS-D lottery only involves a small portion of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  of the crowd. Does that ever happen to you? [Class mumbles in the ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  D student on a pre-existing project, and we have a pretty good sense of the ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on ... . And sometimes I walk by EC and can’t recognize any of the people sitting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... pass the GIRs, which include two semesters of calculus (differential ... asked I've been think, most of the UROPs I've read about are in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  spent the first half of my week home crying. Full body shakes and sobs as I cried into the late hours of the night. I was stressed by my classes ... state of self isolation. I knew it was stupid. Part of it came from the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... no idea what any of those words meant). Sometime over the summer, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... . If the program beats the humans, the field of artificial intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... classes as I could, spent the remainder of my time working as a teaching and ... in. But within a month or two of working here, I knew I'd made the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011