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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re actually going! How ... too long because I look different, and constantly ask me where I come ... I feel just about as welcome as I do in the United States (assuming I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  a nice, long break. Snowpocalypse 2015 also basically forced ... your general state of being right now. Many of you are excited to get out into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  States Secretaries of the Air Force from MIT. As somebody who's long wanted ... of the United States, who came to us with a special message from his ... plane owned by the U.S. Air Force -- as long as it had a passenger seat

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  ...well, yesterday. Phew, it's been long without blogging! During this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  're considered an international applicant if you're not a United States citizen or United States permanent resident (green card holder). Applicants awaiting
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  anything here as long as it does not disrupt this Massachusetts Institute ... price of the same amount that MITechnology students pay for their degrees ... -Profit Universities. The Massachusetts Institute of Tribology: I don't know much about

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  Beach Boys ("Kokomo" / "Wouldn't It Be Nice") 1968: Jefferson Airplane ... 't Deny It") 2006: CAKE ("The Distance" / "Short Skirt/Long Jacket") Here ... Four 1966: The Beach Boys 1962: Dakota Staton 1962: The Four Preps Which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... unfair and inequitable education is in the United States. I cried because I ... university and experience imposter syndrome; these are often students who are

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... State Department of Health urban planner at Dyatt & Bhatia student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  ? Summery beach dresses from Romp Apparel made it feel--very briefly--warm in ... States. Here's the cool part--proceeds from clothing sales are actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of ... state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  a long weekend in which to get away from MIT! (Something that all you ... a picnic on the beach. Cape Cod is one of Massachusetts' more popular vacation spots, with a slew of beaches and overpriced stores. As a local, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  populate universities have already made the choice to eschew finance and ... disciplined enough to deal with long hours and bureaucracy. But alas, we ... long enough to make lasting connections/it wouldn't be too cold to go

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  Accessibility: Verbal Description of Scientific Graphics PHeT has long been ... April 13-22. The Festival is week-long nerd extravaganza that will feature ... more such resources in the United States. ODL Residential Education The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  state of business, stress, and exhaustion; swamped and overloaded with ... -30 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill on the first few nights. To reiterate, it was m-i-n-u-s t-h-i-r-t-y d-e-g-r-e-e-s F

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... ), anyways, stuff like that, they take a long time. And as an undergraduate ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of ... Political Science PhD student, had to say:   University funding (sources ... to be very clear about what the mission is here. MIT has a long history

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  accepted to a university that I sincerely and deeply wanted to attend, but ... monsoonal winds, a long nap, a phone call, and, as of right now, too many ... a long night, but I wouldn't have spent it any other way. What makes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... miss Mikey, who has left us to attend grad school at the university down the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007