Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to preview your application as a PDF. You should do this so you can see how we'll see you application. A common problem is typing in too much and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  't know how other teams are doing, but I think the puzzles this year are ... noise) mike: what was that? douglas: i had a meatball and it was tasty ... puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  15 in less than a month. But the problem with meal plans is that they ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... ’ budget. I live in Burton-Conner, so I have the choice of enrolling in a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  learned that it was due to cancer that he developed less than a year ago. I ... break, I found out that Flora, my cat, was sick.  we thought it was a UTI ... my mom in such a inconsolable state was gut-wrenching. I immediately

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  . Yes, his name is Frank Gehry. I have no idea how I forgot that name ... haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up ... . Alright, that’s it. I know it’s a lot of information just dumped on you, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of ... about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  instead of their actual supervisor is when they work in a political office ... is best to mail supplemental music/art/etc. to us on a CD. I'm told ... who I just spent New Years with in Virginia, for example, was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  minutes later. So, that is how I became a '12. I'm still absolutely ... entry. MIT is intimidating. This was the first thing that I saw from the ... ! Becca '12 and I at Meet the Bloggers Tim '12 and I stuck in a knot at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I ... Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  those of you who are not, I hope the decision is also welcome, and that ... you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. We know you ... mentioned I had been a transfer student. Well, I also was a wait list student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  -defunct Digital Equipment Corp. "The spanning tree algorithm is something that's in ... thought I was bright and I would be able to learn, so that's how I got my ... academically, and earned a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1988. Perlman is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... vile. Might I mention that my cooking partner, Danny, is flamingly vegan ... aborted experiment in homemade black bean burgers is sublimated into a thick

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although ... I went. I sat across the breakfast table from a friend in a downtown ... -Nehisi Coates told me a few years ago, "that James Baldwin is the baddest dude

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  what I want to do later in life, and luckily I have the time to do that ... 'd present at the end of May in a big Open House that anyone could attend ... a bit in laser cutting already, and the point of it is to minimize the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  vision, and in that context...I had a hard time being picked up [by facial ... i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... . "Sounds good, how do I start the puzzle?" you might ask. Well, if you ... undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  selected idea and how we would move forward.  Right after that, I went ... because of my fractured and sprained foot, which is such a bummer because I ... team that never gives up. Also, I got some good news today… Remember how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... every email, meaning that I now have a compilation of all these important ... .5 (Honorable Mention) This is not an email sign-off, but I was sending a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  immerse myself in a new environment, one that is just as engaging and ... . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the ... I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017