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• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , population biology, structural biology, and much more! My branch is ... sequence. This is a data sample of a portion of the Arabidopsis metabolome. The rows are the variating Arabidopsis lines, and each column is a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  's note:" so for the people that don't know, a vermonster is essentially a ... played the game. That is a fact, not an opinion. He was the first sophomore ... I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  applying early is a great way to show the admissions office that you ... applications later. Besides due dates, is there a difference between the EA ... . Getting deferred is NOT a polite rejection. Many many many people are

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... really refreshing break from MIT, and I think this is a really cool way to ... how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  . This is a popular space for student organizations to advertise events ... , since i is imaginary."]A through J[/annotation]. Each entry has one or two ... mentor the undergraduate residents. MacG is a cook-for-yourself dorm

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  is placed on long-term retention of learning, has been a good ... -MIT exchange is a great reason to go to MIT, whether or not you plan on studying ... feeling for what Cambridge, where everything is organized on a year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... 's Boston concert. The Bank of America Pavillion is right off the Silver ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  , right now this picture is entirely misleading for a couple of reasons: a ... try unsuccessfully to slide on them and this is a run-on sentence if ... : I now have room for a small couch, which is definitely going in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... beside me a student from another college has a massive book open beside her ... minutes, a shadow crosses the window, cast by a pedestrian or two walking by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do justice to how otherwordly it is. For a day, I was a princess ... Manhattan apartment. My grandma is awesome. She is a retired math professor ... was still a party. Maine is stunning. Stephen gave me and a couple of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they ... best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of ... applicants. The idea is that the answers tell us something about the applicant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers ... submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... after the deadline. We are much more flexible and understanding with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  letting us know how much you love MIT. We thank you for your patience during ... ;yield"). This year, our yield is going to be around 72-73 percent. Last year, it ... to admit anyone off the wait list this year. This is only the second

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  is pictured here. Notice the gigantic creepy head encased inside a perfect stone cube. That is supposedly a library. One thing you should ... need to take a shower after the beach. Disadvantage: everything is rocky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... academic structure of the new entity: Q: Why is this a college, rather than a school? What is the difference? A: The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  (She's a rockstar by night) So Thursday night we got a preview of ... variable is responsible for the fact that we sold out Lobdell Food Court: 1 ... . Raffle of Guitar Hero An aside, if you will: Guitar Hero is one of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall 2005 issue! MURJ is a student-run journal that publishes articles about ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  puzzles solved yet this morning. Can we get a hint? And everyone is still asleep. :( Update #4 (11:41 AM) The dry spell is over! We just solved a ... just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  is a lecture about achieving childhood dreams. I don't know you may ... I was walking down Mass Ave yesterday under an umbrella with a friend, the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008