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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reread it and felt bouts of cringe, but it’s fine. They say cringing at ... to look at, just a grid of blank white squares. It was all ... through nature, and indulging in the food. At the halfway point of my 3

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Thursday night at 7:30 pm. Stu Schmill, Dean of Admissions, Chancellor Eric ... the programs he's been a part of while at MIT. Insight for Parents by Parents is Saturday morning at 9:00 am. A panel of current MIT parents will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  entry is mainly aimed at the prospective Class of 2013 - yes, the ... . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... , even though I only really started working with this group at the end of ... sophisticated back-end than we have now. One of the things I’ll be looking at this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  Amon talking to other researchers at Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular ... After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes ... beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the instant's action at the edge of the universe? What is just beyond that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... 's that time of year that meteorologists call winter, characterized by snow ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  % of my experience at MIT was being a first year, and man did it feel ... experience at MIT. Now, ending my junior year, a mere 1/3 of my life at the ... Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors ... ; at MIT for Fall 2006, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... interaction that is at the core of much true creativity -- and thus in the great ... Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I swear) for eight years at a time, but finals were busy, and summer came

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever ... a steep rock face at the back of the temple. The rock face was full of ... scrapes and bruises from head to toe. Many of the younger monks signaled at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was ... , mother and son. At a call, two members of the family had to pick up the ... group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  cacophonic calls of "Cocoa! Cocoa!" echo through East Campus. Or at least we ... Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  has a ton of steps any of which if you sit on them, you get whistled at ... So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at ... first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... 's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you ... one of their specialties) was even better than advertised. Then the Red

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  Augmented Reality on top of traditional 2D animation. The AR chair at the time ... Program to Chroma to Rune, that we have pursued and practiced visual arts at ... various artistic/technical aspects of animation, and how we have been able

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good ... Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019