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• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had ... everything the tour guide says, but of course, you'd want to do that anyway

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the ... days ago a bunch of kids pulled down a big branch from the tree outside

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons ... smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for every single day. I knew all the genres of stations, and I thought I knew

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown ... thing I knew, half of my shirts had blue stains on the collar. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... the organelles; rather, it refers to separating different genotypes of ... "Established for the Advancement of Science" suddenly held an entirely new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday naps in the sun. My mom had been feeding them some of her chinese cooking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... steady myself. We traded off for the better vantage point a couple of times ... about the first time he was part of the reenactment, in 2001. He had never

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has ... 't help but laugh, because obviously the residents of Simmons were getting a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to ... in the midst of a lot of relationship-related conflict to be reminded

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students ... ="Hmm, after writing that sentence I’m starting to realize the contradiction of

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same ... coded this with the Python version of Drake, which can be used for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander ... , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  '10 and Rich '10 Dima and Rich's room is located in the opening of the ... proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... ." Rich's side of the room, opposite the feng shui tea shelf, contains his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  back to high school - the days are much longer with an intense amount of ... MSSM Class of 2015, the age range is from 21 to 31, with the average age being 23. I'm 22, so I fit just below the average age of my class. It's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the ... .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024