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• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  no way a judgment of you as a student or as a person," everyone at MIT ... experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  ’t think about physics at all for the first half of 2020, and then I got to ... It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive ... think "Finding heritage at MIT" is one of my best-written entries. ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  students at MIT?" The bulk of the reading is done by the professional full ... Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes

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

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  the sheer ugliness of the arrangement was that any time I sat at my desk ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... , but more on that later.  Before and After! At home, I was

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  plan for the next 6 months. At the end of 70 minutes, I had to give a ... from different living groups, activities, walks of life. Our “Tiger Team” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  of transportation. Bullet was by far the most active; I saw at least ... unreasonably beautiful, balmy days straight through most of January. They almost ... that of this video's protagonist, I actually did. Last Monday, I and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to ... of the lab (2 and a half hours) to build our toy. If you know me at all then you can probably at least guess the theme of the toy I decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  intriguing array of possibilities.” Again, that's completely accurate - but at ... my first few weeks back at MIT. I'll be spending most of my time ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me

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

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am ... the loss of sleep one single bit. To explain: Milan, MIT's annual Garba, Dandiya Raas, and Bhangra dance event, took place yesterday at the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... was working on at 3am the night before). The four of us make last minute ... hosted at the end of each year to honor graduating students and Course 7

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  Jeopardy at 7:00PM sharp, where our family gathered eagerly in front of the ... sniff at my hair. It was the feeling of comfort and love that seemed to ... bothered to really think about before. At my dad's house, I found my love of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is ... pellet at a time. Not only was this a limitation of the pistol itself, but ... loaded one pellet at a time. We talked about the parts of the pistol

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  reason, my elementary school went up to sixth grade instead of ending at ... mob at the last assembly of every year, so without warning, music would ... happening at one end of the gymnasium. In fourth grade, Call Me Maybe was the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... started to fit in at MIT when one of my students told me that my bright teal ... full of students who are top notch at what they do. There is no Crabbe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  during production week of these episodes than I did during my undergrad at ... cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... myself to leave the 'tute, so I took a job at MIT after graduation at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  . I had been at my other two jobs for about a week when one of the sound ... of the movies at midnight, or been to a book party, or even dressed up ... absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon ... my old high school friend Alaina. Turns out she and three of my other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005