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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even ... and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space ... Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U-Haul truck headed towards a sketchy storage facility somewhere in the middle of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  cliched metaphor! Kids, climbing Fuji is like going through MIT in a lot of ... a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike ... - thanks, Wikipedia: Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied ... to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... documents in record time. As a result, we are already having a great reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... 1 would be a high school cafeteria burger and 5 would be an In ... . This weekend is particularly splendid for a couple of reasons. First of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  that I could take advantage of a free trip to Paris! I picked up a copy ... two years, is called January Scholars in France. MIT has all these ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• 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 ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement

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

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  how relevant English is in their lives and how present literary devices ... . Basically, anything that is designed to quantify a process will not only be ... created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  -income communities, which itself is a product of policy decisions regarding how ... not, there is no way to simply put your head down in college and learn a ... , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... put this into my Thursday night TV-watching repertoire. "How much time ... or how much they were on. Last year I stopped watching both shows

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... about admissions. this is a safe haven from that. you should not be ... can talk about stuff you do that you might have included in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  .02 is like being hit by a train that is much bigger and moving far faster ... much rest as possible. Is there any way you can take a break for the next ... 's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of ... good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the ... 's considering doing a UROP in Brain and Cognitive Sciences as an EECS major. But

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front ... machines, and much more. Also, a number of dorms and houses maintain their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  ?" Yes, MIT is infamous for accumulating a collection of unusual and (dare ... inside is vibrant, if not necessarily practical. I take pride in biking ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007