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• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... accepted that application they were going to get the student they read about ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... , to get to know their personal history and less so their academic ... TwT VIDEOS: TwT videos are a great way to *really* get to know your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  )\cdot (\text{inches}^2)\cdot (\text{inches}^2)]^\alpha.\] Hence, to get ... $. I.e., can you use integration (as opposed to discrete sums) to get rid ... to understand some blob by knowing the shadows of the blob. Bam-- that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because ... can get to come home next year and just veg and be with the fam. But

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the ... to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... 've managed to stay on top of my technicals by devoting as little effort as ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a ... you could teach people to swim if you wanted to. TSA Agent: Oh. Huh. and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  . Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I don't need to, and I'm sure I'll figure something out when I get there ... So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  goes by so quickly. However, I've felt inspired to maximize my remaining ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I ... Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... to do research, focus on weather and forecasting, and get a PhD. Now ... needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  helps you learn to code interactively for free. We didn't get away with ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... our salmonella... and we were immediately greeted at the door by Bar

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  for the elephants as Alex tries to get some front shots of the elephants ... to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of those well-known campus-wide facts that everyone looks forward to but isn

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  love. Right now, it's 11:54AM. I happened to get out of class early today ... student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully that wasn't surprising to hear). No matter which school you attend, most

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I ... think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  students determine where they want to live by going to a ton of crazy events ... available on campus without having to worry about getting perfect grades. I ... people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap ... like your dog answers your questions. Also your dog is harder to get ... This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017