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• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  Report: I know that the Midyear Report box is sitting there, unchecked. Don ... looking for missing documents until we post a blog entry saying that we have ... PDF, this is exactly how the admissions committee will see it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... ) that is effectively incumbent upon all students who live in dining dorms ... ). Students in those dorms will have to sign up for a meal plan that consists of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  band is pretty cool in itself. 7. The entire band shouting at a ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... get the first half down. We practiced in a courtyard with two giant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  That title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I ... info in future entries as I learn more, but for now I'll just say that ... -vacation (which is where I've been hiding). So I've got CD's now; stop by 3-107 if

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... eating in my dorm, this usually is enough food to last a week. I typically ... to make food. Which is why I’m really really glad that MIT doesn’t make

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... that I'm a senior. the class has a mix of trained dancers, self ... letter in my name (A) and associated with "back"[/caption] I was initially

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low ... scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in ... surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... that he’s “having a blast.” I asked him if he always ... that “school is a great place to be, so take the time to mentally

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... think of him as a rejected reject though; instead, I think that he was ... all of this before I chose him, but given that the other options were a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you ... Germans protesting very much. Note that I myself got a pot of hot tea and at ... next to it. Honestly, this is just an incredible sight in the middle of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather ... can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  Cumberbatch fangirl." Sam is a brilliant physicist so cross your fingers that Sherlock Season 3 is really bad. 3) This blog post, which I re-read in order ... due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  is known for is hands-on experience. I think this project is a great ... projects, do those last minute problem sets, and perhaps design a wind ... ; however, it was far from that. I had to actually practice being an engineer

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a ... -game (where a special end game is setup in the last few seconds for extra points ... hundreds of unique solutions to the game that'll make a team think "man, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... footnote. I do want to give a special shout-out, though, to Jess Smith, the ... that, and today, I want to tell you a little bit about what —  and why

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  needs. What is leadership? Some say that it’s being the president of a ... This is a new program for the junior class launched in 2007. Assisted by ... , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A ... ’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... inevitably there is at least one final post by a student in their final year at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... out. Earlier in my career, I remember once asking a senior colleague ... that you'd like to share, please feel free to do so respectfully in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  gagging)." [annotation note="In fact, I think that Aubie the Tiger has the ... of college football was so potent in my upbringing, I assumed as a kid ... history, when I learned that the Puritans founded Harvard College for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  about actual black holes, but I do know that time seemed to warp that ... approaching, or maybe it was just the fact that the lab was in a windowless ... basement was excitement, and I knew in that moment, there was nowhere else I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017