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• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don’t ... time when the Admissions office isn’t quite finished working with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won’t ... This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to ... seeing happening on campus as a result of it. As we already know, nearly

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a ... ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... in style - on a Chinook helicopter. As we boarded the bird at Endicott

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a whopping $3.19 per gallon, which was a good deal at the time. It seemed that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The ... Dome as a medium of art, commentary, and celebration. The Dome has been

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  became a really great way to showcase that hard work. But, it wasn’t just ... This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  stuff like a scale model of the Starship Enterprise. There really isn't ... entirely: Minecraft. What is Minecraft? Quoth Wikipedia: a sandbox building ... cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  vicariously through the blogs last year; I wouldn't say it's a bad thing :) ... A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type ... wait your turn or become a certain age before you can do anything, like ... is a Strange Place, a lecture given by MIT Physics Professor and Nobel

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  horses (nope, whew) + MIT Send-off Here are a gazillion pictures from Gilroy Garlic Festival 2005: The entrance is flanked by two port-a-potties. A little bird tells me that between 120,000 and 150,000 people attend

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  temp dorm, you'll have to switch rooms, so laziness isn't a good reason ... informal recruitment. Even though you can't live in these as a freshman, you ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so ... ! Please excuse the lolcat/EECS reference, it was a necessary evil. Surprise and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  , I don't live near Cambridge. And the last time I was on a plane was ... be submitted for a grade. Applying to MIT wasn’t even an expected ... Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  representatives (because who wouldn't want to work for a cool company like i ... My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  opportunity for a more personal admissions process, that, after all, shouldn't ... are a leader, aren't you? Well, AREN'T YOU?? Don't fall for it. Yes ... admissions readers that we can't take a considerably larger number than we do

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  to the model's confidence[/caption] The model didn't do a good job at ... the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn't ... -planet" images, like this! (credit: 6.8371 staff, NASA)[/caption] We were given a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  , sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... occasionally creeping on Anjali '12, who'll be working just a few benches down from me. The grad student I'm working with is awesome and has casually

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011