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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  're going to get an oral quiz over what you learned in high school physics ... want to help a new generation of students to get in. When you email, use ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... excited, in fact, that I came home after class last Friday to this lovely ... perfectly: I was booked to be in my Science, Technology, and Society (STS

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  sometimes) So, who should we get to go to this audition? Ben is married with ... . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to ... : Chaotic How many have you seen? It's a spectacular night here in Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  , what it means to be an MIT student, and how to find support and push ... waterballoons and spirited pre-frosh as West campus rides to victory in the Water ... at any time and solve a few puzzles, or stay as long as it takes to get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  how long I waited to get that spot. It'll be the artist, the date, the ... ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... you will get. I'm writing a separate blogpost on my tips and tricks to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  explore the field is to get a UROP in one of the many labs that do nanotech ... nature, you can be in practically any science/engineering major and get ... department, researchers in the Lang Lab use a laser “tractor-beam” to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap ... , and since then have managed to actually organize and get this event to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  ="1000"] my eyes needed to pee and there was someone in the bathroom ... I didn’t know how to do half of them. There were days I got three S^3 ... how my grades said I did in the class, I was just happy that I learned

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  directories here are in Georgia and Arial, again two Windows fonts. How to ID ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in ... how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  trying to understand how to holographic emissive materials in several ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  . Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about the things in [EECS Opportunities List ... announcement email[/caption] The prospect of getting to fiddle with technology ... . My expectations for getting in were [annotation note="per the usual

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  cleaning was going, but we weren't sure how to get inside MacGregor to check ... . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... took our class to Boxaroo (an escape room in Boston founded by MIT Alums

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... got me to fall in love with the idea of being an MIT student. 4 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts ... suppose. First way to enjoy a spring in Cambridge: Find the appropriate

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  autonomous vehicle company) I’m learning how to skateboard. 98% for the a e ... min bus rides to class sound incredibly unappealing. As does getting ... as little masks that hide how clueless you really are in the kitchen

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... gets larger in the window, nighttime Boston like a wet spiderweb beneath ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  the poster with the llama gets to be in the top half. +1 for the Pac ... , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and ... in Building 68 in the past two weeks, from least favorite to most

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty ... apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... went to the Air and Space Museum in DC when I lived in Virginia with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021