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• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that ... this week, but for now, here is a photo of us having an ice cream reunion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish ... 's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by ... studying abroad in a foreign city. Things move at a different pace, with a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... applying to college. A funny moment while filling out applications. What it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... in creativity and fitness originating from a very simply defined ... . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... semisweet chocolate and tossed it into her chocolate cookie recipe. I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  and over in my head like a broken record: "deferred is not rejected." It ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal. The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  THEIR CLASS MAILING LIST The name of the game is a photo scavenger hunt ... of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... street is that this could mean a Nobel Prize for MIT's Prof. Alan Guth ... into the wrong exam hall, I said "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a ... ’t consider myself to be a terrible ice skater, but I was pretty bad in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  :48 PM: Jolts to a start and realizes that, in fact, life is full of ... is like taking a drink from a fire hose," right? (If you haven't, I ... classes at MIT is like riding a train whose speed increases exponentially

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... dining plan during college, knowing how to cook is still an essential life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  question is however, do I celebrate at: A) Toscanini's B) JP Lick's C ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  in the neighborhood, I can speak with some certainty that he is not Noah and said construction in not an ark. Good Luck! P.S. A prize will ... -time mathematician. John is my neighbor, and for the last few weeks he has been

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  been in the middle of a great book - How Doctors Think, by Dr. Gerome ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... River and the bay glittered like uncut gems in the light. It took me but a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... American excellence." This is a topic we could talk about for hours on end...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... was too engrossed in eating a slice of genipapo toast in the dressing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  email later this week for the details from us about how to tune in ... what documents are still required. There is also a link to the contact ... still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013