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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been ... , well, was quite an adventure. I departed from how at about 11am with my ... didn’t get their farecards in advance. Meanwhile, my sister and I, with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  Well, you heard it here first. The letters are in the mail. For the record, I can't believe what an incredible group of people you are, both ... room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also ... , I learned (the hard way) how not to pronounce "Nevada" (hint: it's not ... 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Do you have cheerleaders? This, I guess, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  in which everyone can thrive and succeed. From what I have seen of ... should I take or activities should I be involved in? There is no one answer ... and recommendations highlighted in the Turning the Tide report, and I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  . As you can see, your GC has a very important role in the College ... will snap like a maple tree in a hurricane. (I have no idea what that ... relationship that lasted almost 20 years. How proud was I to visit Cardozo as a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement ... and strawberry and coffee and... wait, I can look them all up." "Okay, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  the table. I can't tell you how many people came up as I was standing ... uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I ... internal and surrounding art worlds. I am interested in the fine arts ... student life at MIT. Before coming to MIT, I had only exhibited in groups

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... and find out! I can’t say this enough - graduating from college is tough ... tour guides how you can connect with particular spaces on campus, connect

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow ... whether you can paint your room is one of those little quirks to look at. I ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  people i know; that they have used up weeks in the service of their ... close scrutiny, you can find students in any community engaging in ... ; i don't know the details. but it's difficult for me to understand how

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... ride up the elevator makes me think about how I'm "rising" through the ... donates, they earn a badge that they can display in their email signature

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to ... headquarters. There's my laptop in the middle, where I watch what answers have ... 't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , the excruciatingly detailed how-to-do-everything-that-you-can ... ’S FRIDAY NIGHT NOW SO YOU CAN’T TURN IN YOUR NEW FORMS UNTILL MONDAY MORNING ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  ", how did it get two colors, and in general, what was the process like? I ... behind MIT's logo, and MIT's graphic identity in general. I'll take a different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012