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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes ... work at MIT ... But what we could use are facts. Do you know how Zambian

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  ... how difficult is it to pick stuff up? As far as picking up programming ... what are some of the classes/teachers you've particularly enjoyed? I didn't do enough justice to this answer, originally. Some classes I also liked

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would ... student groups. I'm happy to report that -- arguably unlike regular zoos ... ;             I also like that the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  school year, and I thought it would be interesting to hear their insight as ... 're technically grown-ups too, but you know.) Anyways, I recently spoke with the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  ) recently and we talked about writing and how to make a living at it. I think ... your head suggests.) Or maybe sooner. I'm never short on inspiration ... to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• 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…

  

  middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below: Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... Walker Memorial. Over the years, I've watched the fireworks from many

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

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... other universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match ... "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below: Okay, so I'm not ... , I've watched the fireworks from many locations on and around campus ... until sunset. I love the folks at MIt Sailing and highly recommend that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go ... the blue skies above. I bump into a stranger after scrolling through my Twitter newsfeed for too long. I check Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr. Everywhere

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  . What an amazing state you have! (And I honestly didn't mind how hard it ... month ago. Sorry guys, I apparently thought I was Nance for a second there... my bad. Meanwhile Mr. Prolific has logged 43 entries so far in 2007 - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... ) “they would probably say ‘He’s Spock from Stah Trek!’” Now Nimoy is 83

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry, when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  occasion of their graduation. I told how ambivalent I felt (about myself; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... , 2017 at 12:26pm PDT   Two years ago, at the last commencement I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any ... application as fully as they would like. Maybe they are still awaiting their ... Regular Action if you would benefit from the additional time (or for any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Last night, I watched an award winning cartoon about snails, "Les Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... 's movie marathon was one such event I had to attend. Slated for viewing for

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus mocks West Campus for being "normal." Good fun all around, and I really hope I expressed this clearly and won't be getting any angry emails from students about the way I portrayed them. I decided to take this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  student when I see how devoted students here are to causes they care about ... This entry chronicles interesting things I did on the middle three days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... newly submitted documents. If at this point you would like to withdraw your application from consideration at MIT just email us. Ok, I'm going

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  looked so good! We knew it would take quite a bit of time, between cooking ... 's pretty magical about this dish is seeing how quickly so much liquid gets absorbed into the rice, and also how much more volume the rice takes up after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019