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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  settling in for a day of studying but will generally end with a group going ... . In truth, I wouldn't miss it for the world! And yes, I'll be making ... got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the ... [/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015 ... , often standing for hours in the sun handing out parking slips or life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network ... MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when ... and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... out of power midair and came in for a glider landing--except the wind

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a ... EC to find a time and place that works for your interview. In a ... recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I ... thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You ... way. But then I started chatting with future classmates in an online

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  phrased in a different way: If it looks stupid, but it works, it ain ... can spare an hour or two earlier in the day cranking out some pset ... in the 'sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  -law - Seen (and lived in, for a few days) my dad and stepmother's huge new ... office is looking in a transfer applicant. Thanks." To answer this, I ... think. For an elite school, MIT gets a pretty good number of first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  people) ended up in one room, waiting for the professor. A half-hour past ... university, I didn't want to pay $26,000 for the spring semester. Math in ... transcript. I wanted to save my money for in-person classes. I am still

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle ... spend the holiday with the family (Mom, Dad, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin -- in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... and swirled in a nebulous illusion of infinite possibilities, an ... -note cluster chord in an Ives sonata. Skipping down the curb and over a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  prepare for the interview: Review the ways in which you spend your time ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my ... airport, I felt myself breathing for the first time in a while. It felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  D students in Mechanical Engineering."]someday you’ll look back on this Pi Day ... on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads for ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  chess-playing robot and a steam-powered computer. As I looked for a ... (for his cars), a heliport (for his two helicopters). In addition to a ... applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  what to look for in terms of schools. For both of them, WISE influenced ... ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and ... ’d attend would assist in paying for her degree. She loved math, so she

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  have secured a room in the Institute for holding their rehearsals this ... JUBILANCE concert, the Linde Building opened its doors to the public for an ... excited for the opportunity to observe FaMLE set up their rig in the new

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... "Kim", who apparently won lots of money and an "academic biography in Who ... name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... was run out of a pristine-looking house, in sharp contrast to the other ... weeks. We spoke to them for over an hour about their stories from working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010