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• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... have a good breakfast, which is why Sunny's exists. A short walk down Mass Ave is all it takes before you are seated to a nice hot

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process ... 't admit anyone until all of the reading is done and we come together as a ... Rolling Admissions model. This is the model used a number of schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for ... . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... .... Yes. Yes, that is in fact what you think it is. A monkey made entirely ... place is actually a school....

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which ... non-freezing temperatures. Also, the food was gr9. Whenever I plan a ... wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  was so much fun! I did take one pretty bad fall on my chin that left a ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... of the story here is that no one is a shoo-in for MIT, but the opposite ... has a stratospherically high suicide rate. This is a contention

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the ocean is only a short train ride or drive away. In fact, many of ... train or a ferry. This means that the trips wind up being really

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  "wow, this is actually a little heavy," got on the bike, and roamed ... of like a teddy- OH GOODNESS. "Raphael, what is that?" Raphael looked ... time I owned a bike, I was nine years old, The last time I felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  January and four weeks is not a lot of time to get a production up and ... [by Harrison Bralower '11] It started with a sound board. When I was in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... : Jimmy is just a player." A 6-foot-4 guard, Bartolotta is averaging 27 ... to, he works his tail off. If Jimmy is a genius, he’s the hardest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One ... was Enric Rovira. He's a master chocolatier in Barcelona, who is well ... I learned a couple months ago is quite poor, so all I have to show for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  professor is speaking a foreign language. This bipolarity often occurs within ... Eric Lander, one of the leads on the Human Genome Project, is a lecturer ... , but to hear a gang leader’s opinion on nonviolence is something else

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I hope you're enjoying it. The long weekend, that is (or normal ... is...a deep and profound understanding of the word "on." Go out there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/34w1NkAVcqH4pn9xpuuGDp?si=6ca6d77b70a546b2 Is there a song that helps

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do ... students, and everyone else who is a part of our community and more. And so ... pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  . (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun through the sky is roughly a circle that moves north and south as the ... The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  confuse your audience. It is a 1998 Fender American Precision Deluxe, black ... Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006