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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  then make it even better. About a tenth of Random Hall is currently ... The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  technically not mine or any of my family's but since we did live next door and this dog was capable of leaping tall buildings like Superman or just her ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  to hopefully catch these blogs up to my current life, but instead of ... classes before this semester were a mix of[annotation note ... [annotation note="Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems"]20.110[/annotation]. This

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to offer. And, of course, there's always Mystery Hunt to look forward ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... Cambridge anymore, Toto, when I - realizing that none of my relatives know

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  and the University of Pittsburgh. My favorite parts about these few ...   To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... 90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which ... collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... not, @horse_ebooks helped inspire an entire genre of surrealist _ebooks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  at the University of Chicago called Cascade. I would have never learned ... several of my Saturday mornings after I found an old CD containing Bobby ... starting my own company? Heh...nope. I played "Splish Splash", of course

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... Oppenheimer said "I am become death, the destroyer Of worlds", He was not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help ... , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

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

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... in Baker but that year, I also joined ZBT, one of MIT's fraternities ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  . You can hear part of a Random Hall tour in the background As even these ... all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  hours. An alumnus of my hall is actually the record holder for the Green ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  , dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can ... and center at the CPW Opening Ceremony. Three members of Alpha Phi Alpha ... videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That Friday, I rushed out of my dorm with my friend Caroline, knowing that I was most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities ... traditionally-thought-of-as-MIT-ish things like science fairs or math competitions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006