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• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen ... like a gift from the god of poor frozen college kids. The main part of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  what I had written and photos I submitted, both so you can get a sense of ... note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults[/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I ... . What can I say about selection in general? Not much, really. The ... . Exciting! As I've mentioned, we also work on weekends during selection. When

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  being placed a 5 minute walk away from a cat cafe, where we got to pet and ... animals. I wanted to a veterinarian for 16 years of my life and actually ... for a couple years. I've realized that while computer science is fun and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  -game (where a special end game is setup in the last few seconds for extra points ... 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  ) I have to do for the office. My silly notion that when I blog, it should be a momentous occasion, where I have something important to say (I ... regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my ... ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  around on my laptop and I came across a post on my facebook wall from one ... was a suburban mom of two who was recently separated from the man I had ... I don’t watch much TV anymore and I’m a little behind when it comes

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that ... , but I was excited because the headliner was Shin Lim, a Boston ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  came, where I had time to crawl up into a ball on my bed and sleep. For ... and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each ... , especially for macroeconomics, 14.02. I had a near perfect homework grade

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch ... away from MIT by road. My family has limited funds and no car, so I was ... asked if I could wait for them, so I kept watch on our tour as it quickly

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long weekend. I wasn’t expecting an affirmative answer, really, as a 4-day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  was about my final projects from senior fall. I got hit by writer's block for three reasons: One, I got really into creative writing when I took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

   http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... Hi everyone, The short version is this: please give anything you can to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... . Almost every summer, my sister and I tackle a new ropes course. Although I have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... - which I had planned a long time ago - coincided with Maker Faire 2011 ... feedback from the web. Greg snapped a picture of me playing some As Tall As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  actors. And, I'll admit, rather appropriate for a theater group that primarily uses its fake Yoric-from-Hamlet skull as a cookie bowl. I asked each ... . Lights (Dan Perez '10) "As a starting point for the lighting design, I was

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  decided to make a super-retro 8bit blocky construction / run away from ... from creepers and during the night I hide away in my bunker and dig dig ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... friend who was on his way to a job orientation for the World Wide Web ... so he tagged along and got chosen for one of the positions. He wrote a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006