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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot ... have miles (well, a paper) to go before I sleep. Ttfn! ... , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... other people are freezing I'm basking in the comparative mildness of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q&A ... read more about President-elect Kornbluth in a comprehensive article from ... 'm slightly off."]like[/annotation] "I love students who build a good roller

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from ... room, or in the study in the hall. After a while, I realized that I was ... miserable. So miserable that I even uttered the word "transfer" in a phone

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  with our current major in 21E) or should stop doing computer science ... about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until ... -is-becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for-the-past-month-is-a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  you take a sailing class while at MIT. I will reveal the #1 place to ... a big hit. Here are some photos I took from the Esplanade: The ... buildings along the river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... completed in September 1970.  I was a young 18 years old then.  I'm 67 now, a ... stayed in an A Entry room during the warm 1994 alumni weekend. I nearly

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... -mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  probably already know what Maker Faire is, but if you don't it's basically a ... called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3 ... the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  bit and here I was again, on a cold, snowy morning, in the town of ... and exploration I had experienced here only a few months before ... - Ferrari - in Maranello, a small town in the hills near Modena. Mentally

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... they have a system that helps keep everything in balance, and if I can ... felt happier than I had in a long time, more put-together, whole. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  . But before my would-be opponent and I could find a suitable table ... dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... captured, that was never real, or only was a long time in the past. I wonder

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about Kevin Gillespie and J.R. Hildebrand. In 1997-98, a student named Kevin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] 202.9 (slightly cursed) Tims from the Class of ‘29 by Joy X. '29

  

  2029, but I ran out of time. Maybe that will come in the future. Anyway ... Great Dome police car as his vehicle form (is that what it’s called? idk I ... ="attachment_120878" align="aligncenter" width="719"] Spherical Tim (in a vacuum) - he

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get-out-the-vote campaign in newport news, virginia, the weekend before election day. i ... one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... colony again?” – Anonymous MIT student #924, COOP employee “I have a bad ... humming and even doing a little jig in front of the Borderline murals. Even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  Gettysburg with a degree in marine biology. I asked him what his dreams, his ... into my gap year, I picked up another job in the Emergency Room at a Hospital in Springfield, a nearby city in Massachusetts. I had always been

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004