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• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... dynamic place full of lots of diverse people, so the admissions process

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... Machine": One part of CPW mythology is the "Weather Machine" -- that somehow ... substantial portion of the Class of 2012 will be on campus, so it would actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this ... best and worst parts of the dorm.") Also bonus: word cloud compiled from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  spent about 3000 hours in the lab over the course of three summers, three ... . He still has to take the GRE and write a statement of purpose and all ... for the rest of eternity, those are totally the two I'd pick, so I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  the mature musk of well-aged Costco-quality imported vinegar, followed by the buttery sweetness of ripe apple meat, and finally dissolving into the passive-aggresive heat of cayenne powder. The result was wild

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the ... , along with the report[/caption] A lot of the report was redacted, as this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are ... preview of all the fun that we’re planning this April. Check your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I ... . One of the things that make these blogs special is that there is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... the conclusion of freshman year, that student may choose from any of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the ... in the Z Center, but another thing to run in a nice shirt inside of a ... around the block three additional times with three different pairs of shoes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply ... prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the ... attitude reminds me of the conservative attitude towards fetuses. Because it ... values. Seizing the future I actually want—instead of the one that will be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... offered the position. Her mentor, Russell Tedrake, was an MIT Computer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... around them, if you can. So look for opportunities offered outside of your ... abundance of Diadema antillarum, the spiny sea urchin, inside and outside of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... predicament eerily reminiscent of when I got rejected from The Cheesecake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  -least-favorite day of the year, after moving-out day (which additionally involves ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of ... renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  terms of planning. spring break officially began on the 18th, but it emotionally started for me on Wednesday the 16th, which was the night of a Tame ... the best concert experiences of my life, second only to the Tame Impala

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few ... Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my ... . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004