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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons ... – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed ... .2060 "Blackbird" lab kit. It's got most of the electronics we need for prototyping

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school ... academic reasons). The past two years have been full of excitement from

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... through this entire bin of orange, red, and green markers until she found the one blue Sharpie in the entire thing. These folders were on sale

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The ... jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  half from now, after all of the folders have been read. That's when we'll first start admitting the Class of 2009. More on this as the day draws ... turkey dinner with my extended family. Then I'll spend the entire rest of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my ... that I am an [annotation note='per the registrar, the class of 2021 has 9

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... the agonizingly stressful yet undoubtedly invaluable process of ... sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to be going well at this point, all of the phones are still filled, and we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... 's spend this time examining the lesser-discussed problems of these surveys ... were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  especially when – it’s cold outside. The [annotation note="or is it one of ... lunch, featuring my ridiculously good view of the Boston skyline ... just a forgotten, barren valley between the hills of early adulthood

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware, 1999 Masters of Public Administration (Home of The Fightin' Blue Hens AKA ... thoracic surgeon helping the indigenous population of the Republic of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY ... in 56 as well. Here's a shot of the hallway from the other end. That ... . Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine ... 'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  Delray Beach. Masakazu Toshikage, the consul general of Japan in Miami ... suburban Lantana. A resident of suburban Lake Worth, he will be attending the ... I've been meeting." The Morikami is one of many places where Kubber

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... subset of my actual experience. I had pictured all the moments of triumph over hard things and meeting some of the world’s most interesting people

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future ... that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different ... else in the car disagreed with my claims of being an introvert. In ... where or when the idea of life-long friends was planted in my head, but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community ... preparation based solely on the absence of SAT/ACT scores, but will instead make

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021