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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  kinds of beverages than you can shake a stick at. Eureka! I have reached ... , when you're hard at work putting off a problem set, you realize that you ... route -- can you find the buildings?) Ready? Let's go! In that door

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  really was. See, DOOM was a villain. A better way to put that is that Doom is the villain. That’s not to say he was a bad guy in the classical ... Mouse and you realize this dude created an entire connected universe where he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  our hosts will be before we get there? I know you're just matching us up ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit so well within a career that is still considered to be male ... I needed to apply. Just a little jolt of confidence can really go a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  soon as it is empty. You can barely see it in this photo, but this room ... , which can drive a person crazy. Above is the first half of the room ... side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  States, and is considered among the best. The undergraduate program is a 4 ... year -- he may have admitted you! I had a few tough follow-up questions ... now -- thanks to the power of the Internet! -- I can answer. "Do you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  , and your isef shirt is too :P) What's better, a Gummy Choco tube or a ... see you all at CPW! ^_____^V (where are all the 2014 guys? :p ... Alright so my laptop is alive again! :P Sorry for the lateness! >

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  works just a bit better. All that work so that you can hold an everyday ... interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... picked it up and read a bit before my next class. Babel is a fantasy novel

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  at night, and how much bigger the sky is when you can see it touch the ... unexpected twists of the last year, taking a gap year is one of the rare few I ... another college student. Regaining balance: There are a lot of things that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours ... held one question out for further inspection. Melissa had asked, "Do you know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech

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

  End of term

  

  conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of ... "Red Sox Swap" instead, swapping socks (of all colors) -- you can't make this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  of the MIT spirit is collaboration and cooperation: you can see it all ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... articulate MIT's mission for the next 50 years (this is a topic for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a ... it into a perfect bow tie (where am I going with this metaphor let ... means that Professor Seering is the Batman.   You see, the reason

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... is currently a Ph.D. student at Harvard Medical School. She will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best way to fill this out. Do your best to place things where you think they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  blood sugar is regulated through a very complex control system to make sure that your body has enough juice to function.) There is also a lab ... , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  off school and having no pressing obligations is a little strange after a semester being firehosed at MIT, where you could have fun, but only ... the junction where a lot of people you know may become lifelong friends

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... -infected humans out there: your whole body is a mystery. As a course disclaimer, we ... I can't wait to tell you why 9.24 and 9.26 are awesome, so here goes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... off for thanksgiving). And one of those is just a rando ... . My biological clock is underdamped with a stupidly high Q. Looks like

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  units?) This class is open to anyone who can write a letter, not an e ... so this might be out of my league, who knows? As you can see there are ... to my degree Voting Considerations Before you vote Here is a sample

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022