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• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have ... travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  one of the reasons I chose MIT. I'm celebrating by wearing a Homestuck ... of the reason you'll choose MIT. Maybe it'll be a sudden moment of ... be special for you, too, for being one of the reasons you choose MIT.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  're harnessing the incredible power of our students to draw doodles when they ... possibly communicate the amount of #swag i had back then, so instead, here is a photo. this was not my daily attire at the ripe old age of 15, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  entire week free from classes! Back in high school spring break was in the middle of April, but here it's at the end of March. Most other colleges ... a UROP! I never thought I'd be joining the ~85% of the MIT population

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last ... all night, it is this disgruntled bull. Although the 22 other students in the cluster with me may have some idea as well. ...On an almost

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety ... Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals ... another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together ... is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating ... -world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  We're aware of the different academic calendar in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern hemisphere. Students from these countries may apply to MIT before completing
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  below are in the format of Poem Title by Author (poetry form) Table of ... Mejia (Triversen) the rotting and fettering corpse of our love sits ... the biggest: the strange shape of my two eyebrows. both caterpillars

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  is Peter Reddien, seriously the boy-wonder of Course 7 (biology). Apparently he was one of the most brilliant course 7 grad students the ... Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of ... Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American Mathematical Society Journal, with a link to the article below). Seriously, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... respond to much of anything in the next 42 hours or so as we wrap everything

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ="as you may have gathered by the use of past tense so far"] And yet,[/annotation] I’ve decided to drop the class. This decision came after days of ... courses. If you do the math, that’s at least one per semester of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  amount of hours spent on the computer, our blasters, if I may say so ... , thanks for one the most unforgettable experiences of my freshman year! ... that I was taking 2.00b: Toy Product Design this past semester. Over the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... sing along. We know all of the words, too.  Loop Lounge 12

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014