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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael ... they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this ... this in your essays or anything. I'm speaking as an educator here, purely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  email later this week for the details from us about how to tune in ... walking distance of MIT. Driving and parking in Boston can be super ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... paragraph.  Because every time I step into 35-307, I'm reminded of how lucky I ... difference in navigating those choppy waters. Lessons I've gleaned: It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... 6 (I can’t remember exactly how) and the rest of the dormitory is ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  , they had a friend that was just accepted to MIT EA. I'm not sure how much ... I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... called the "externship" program. i did an externship last IAP, and you can ... ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and ... . (Disclaimer: I did always have an interest in bioengineering, but i just didn ... , I was en route to spend another five years at MIT pursuing a PhD in

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  in 2009 (2010?). I can't tell you too much more without upsetting my ... buffalo. There are no buffalo in california as I write this entry though I ... graphs are ugly! I've been learning how to use STK (Satellite Tool Kit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... major options left. And now I’m (almost) officially a double major in ... ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  with 100 dimples hemispherically embedded with radius 3mm, I can help you ... -tesselating backgrounds should stay non-tesselating. I don't know if you can read that tiny ... website, and you can tell they're serious because the text is red. Psh I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many ... , but that isn’t to say it is all accomplished alone. In fact, I had an

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ... I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow ... participating in a pre-orientation program. I did the Freshman Leadership Program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  ?*supplementary material*5)can i send in my poems,stories and ...outlines for novels?...how?where?in ... [Independent Projects] I have been doing during these gap years. Can I send in ... , can i update the admission committee about the results in feb?" We may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  energy came through in Rambax’s performance. I loved that spoken ... original spoken word. What impresses me about it is how a person can get into ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person ... contributed to MIT in so many ways that I wouldn't know where to begin. So, I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... with me after work, and it's not like people have dorm rooms i can crash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022