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• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting ... in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is ... importantly — their connections with friends, family, and community.  When the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman ... 450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a ... lectures with everyone in the class, and then every other day, have an hour

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and ... dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... family decides we're from that week, and so I was initially a bit hesitant

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  since MIT is known to be a tough school, and whether looking back, I wish ... about a year ago (June 2013) and - because I wasn’t ready to be a Real ... of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and ... martini glasses. I thought it was ice cream for about an hour and wondered ... , Boston's tallest building) for some warm cookies and tea. Though it had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  for good. Instead, producers, writers and filmmakers must engage in "Shake-shifting," a collaboration in which both artists and the Bard give and take.... Henderson noted in a recent e-mail, "My interest in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  a bed?" And Mike Borohovski answered, "It depends on where/with whom ... ! Anonymous asked, "Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... and dislocate your knee cap just a few weeks into break, you, my friend ... around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  my travel shots. There was a slight mix-up with my appointment, and I ... been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  , to dress in cosplay and geek out with other fans, to go to a city where ... he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch ... school who also ended up on the East Coast for university, see Big Fish and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  those we live with - my hall won a bbq paid for by our house because we ... sharing a communal bathroom with intellectual giants. Look at how our hair ... with my sister to a stand-up comedy show called Comedy for a Cause, a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  remainders of three books that I've always been looking for, and that the ... Hindemith beat me to that by like 40 years), so I've been looking for a good anthology for a while now, and one that costs $8 and features unexpurgated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  need for all students, international and domestic MIT has a quota on ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... way that we learn about admissions from a more global perspective and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  nerdiness on your chest for the viewing pleasure of small children and ... fiction isn't for you, you can always read a newspaper. Any newspaper ... know it because you probably went ahead and panicked a lot anyway. Worse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an ... seems, another poster falls, and I stick it back on grimly with another ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for ... Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  and prevent cancer. [...] The project, which might end up with a ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... with one another and with sequences in healthy tissue, it should be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  sciences, working for New Horizons. She graduated undergrad in '13 with a ... Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and half years and 3 billion miles later, it has reached its destination and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015