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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are ... 's name is Quicky... that could be a did you know." So I just got this e ... Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  All transcripts must be submitted by a school counselor or another ... school and college transcripts. If your school does not have a school ... : If you send us a copy of your transcript while we are waiting for your
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  , only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse ... in just ten years. 1 in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest proportion of international students in a U

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... tinkering just because you don’t have a lot of resources. “I’d really like a ... expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend ... seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get front row ("splash") seats, so I left the theater a little bit wet and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit ... 's soooo nice! Like a nice, lovable grandpa! So when I asked him if he'd take ... TIM THE BEAVER. He happened to be in Stata the day I was carrying Flat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  know when they might come in handy. It was a gorgeous, warm night with lots of stars in the sky. We swam lazily through what must be the clearest water I've ever been in (I could read my watch with my arm under

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the ... hour. And voilà! Sanity restored, in the depths of a stormy week. ... About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... -café, visit an exhibit in the Saga Museum, and enjoy a gourmet (by which i mean ... a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... so lucky, but I did write a handful of rhymes for giggles on our bus

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman ... As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  in my physics classroom for a late-night review session. Somehow, I ... was made more memorable by the following episode: (Jeanne and I spot a ... the second I saw this picture. In chem class on Wednesday, this reborn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in thousand of miles and an entire country away (in Toronto), I can only send my ... wildfires. Half a million people have evacuated their homes, and more than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead ... rumors- at MIT, everything is given a number. Classes, buildings, trees

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had ... nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... approximation 0.00237769994 + 0.10368577 i. A lot of departments at MIT have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... machine will go. You set a probe in the machine, a thin stick with a ... is itching over the pedal the way it never does over the gas, in a car

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  forged in injustice as a sword is forged." On Writing is my bible. I ... I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  won an Annie Look-a-Like contest in Chicago when I was seven years old ... seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... music: I love nearly all kinds of music, but if asked to name a few, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005