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• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would ... choice for yourself. This isn't the end of the road, and I hope you'll feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... in the cadre of engineers and scientists who come up with solutions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... of people consider "essential" for a successful MIT application -- the ... So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having ... doesn't mean that you have a lesser understanding of the subject. But now that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  reminded me of the good old days before I dropped 18.701, except with less ... to Harvard, which of course takes its name from the fantastic Harvard ... , spectacular "block party" on the second Saturday of September every year, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are ... in the context of your overall application and use your best judgment

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  experience at MIT. Now, ending my junior year, a mere 1/3 of my life at the institute so far has finished. It's the natural motion of the world. More experience leads to a smaller proportion of the time it took to gain that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera ... me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of the course is composed of an overview of the psychology behind being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  spirit of last year's post, i'll start this one off with a list of all the ... title is a lyric from a japanese song. the playlist consists of songs that ... in europe over spring break, inspired by the Sound of Music tour that i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... off the front page, and the only thing I hate more than getting pushed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each of the groups The next day, I walked through Lobby 10 and saw my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... , an explosion of water, and rock, and steam, and dust, and ash. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  , so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to ... be 100% prepared. Wave goodbye to the days of spelling lists and map

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out ... home for spring break is the first breath of air I've had in a while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT ... (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may ... montage of the performances at the Closing Variety Show at CPW this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  apartments with [annotation note="9 out of the 11 other freshmen, one junior ... here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... of environment. I'm really enjoying the agency that living here has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... unburdened by the demands of classes Step 3: Begin construction There are ... deep in the snow--you might end up with large amounts of goose poop mixed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  , particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the ... . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be ... little pockets of the MIT landscape. And I stayed in some, and realized

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023