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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don ... all about it, work with a room full of creative geniuses to craft the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... 've ever been to a physical therapist, you know the kind of discomfort I mean: the breaking apart of old adhesions that hurts even as it gives you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... big mess while we were in the process of putting things away. We get a limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of ... rest of your life"--is the condition of realizing how incomprehensibly ... , too massive to not have a plan. When I graduated, I grasped the edges of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering ... admissions today on MIT FB, and it reminds me of the time when I applied to MIT ... Pattie Maes of MIT Media Lab, talking about the most futuristic interfaces

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  down the hallways taking note of club meetings, where they were, and what ... n>>2. The preliminary calendar of events is here, and I have a ... of looking at it), the Stand Up Rally is at Harvard at 7pm this Friday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  that end, I want to make use of the handy "blog reaccs only (beta)" feature at the bottom of the page to gather some audience input about which ... retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... Design. The concept of 2.00b, or Toy Product Design, is fairly simple ... the perils of group dynamics in poorly managed projects.  People tend to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down the symptoms of workaholic withdrawal through the ancient zen technique

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes ... the history of japan guy, and it is an incredible rabbit hole. cj ... me of the last class of 6.031, when it played while my professor stood

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... giving it some thought, I answered: “to make the most of this last year of ... five minutes late listening to: the sarcastic commentary of the train

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... anomaly. What I don't quite understand is the lack of preparedness by the ... will be cramped. However, offering this up in advance gives people the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... unpleasantness to the situation. But of course I calmed down eventually, and I do realize the futility of this approach. So I started trying to think

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course ... -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... "Material Girl" at the top of your lungs. I found a pair of 4-inch Steve

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006