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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  Destiny Floor Lounge of Random Hall, watching Netflix—I have a deep and ... two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge ... session. Here I am with 3 hours of sleep and 50+ hours of stitching. By the end of the weekend I had created this masterpiece. In 2023 I was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  space. One of the walls, deeply red, bore the letters: Boston University ... take classes and ultimately earn a Boston University Bachelor of Arts ... where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in ... than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community service projects.  However, this year I decided to apply to be a mentor for ... so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  blogger committee - composed of communications staff and some senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications. We laughed. We cried. We got ... the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... thousand faxes and are working on processing them. In a small number of cases

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  , and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the talented people who applied. If Blogger selection was any indication of what ... year. That's just as well since Chris Peterson has a hatred of LOLcats

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019: Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International ... of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  continues in parallel is the financial aid process. For those of you applying ... the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  applies to the Romance languages. There are plenty of examples of all of ... . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality, every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... so saw the Class of 2020 arrive on campus for their orientation, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I ... semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is notoriously academically difficult because you're adjusting your expectations of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  Department of Applied Mechanical Engineering in an Urban Environment ... Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... . I decided to share the wealth with my friends over the course of the

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  limits, a ghost wandering the halls of First East. But the long weekend ... where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote ... the universe, this all having raised up an image in my head of a world ... underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023