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• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  entertaining readings I’ve had from a class. So far my favorite one has been The ... thing. I think it's worth it for the read! Overall this class has been a ... , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  from field observations will be crucial for my own future research. I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to ... been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  April/May and none of what I’m doing right now counts? Well, for ... practicals where we have to 1) participate and 2) write up a lab report. Each ... . Depending on your subject and which year you're in, you can have anywhere from

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  's the lobby where people mingled and waited in line for their rings. The roof of the cylinder lobby ring area. A jazz band played for the ... I finished finals yesterday (Tuesday), so now I am pretty much done

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  (which I've traded a few sleeping hours for at market price) surrounded by ... like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . Personally, I find this a lot more exciting than Mystery Hunt. I mean, there ... things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  without a car sucks LA is too flat for my taste. i feel exposed ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... some things that i've taken away from this summer. these things aren

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  tinkerer/builder type who had a passion for creation. I wore around my MIT ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled ... was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this ... list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... those who learned this unhappy news today, I want to express my thanks for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere ... Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  again, thousands of miles away from where you normally live and go to ... from the garden. It's the chickens, under a coffee tree, next to it, an ... look up, up into the trees, to see if you can spot a lemur. There were so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  decisions for the year, but there were at least a few more. Will we use the ... years: we notified 30 students by email that they have been admitted from ... waitlist became a reality. We worked all day today as a subcommittee to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... notes left over from this one, so I also made a tiny crane and a lotus ... : Robert Lang I folded this cardinal from a crease pattern – a single

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I ... skin-tight blue Under Armor and a real blue mohawk. Unfortunately, I ... ’m sorry to say that I took a more conventional route, as I stayed in lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... news for Heroes fans at MIT: Masi Oka, who plays the lovable and awesome Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... one of my MITFAC emails, I was warmly invited to a free sustainable

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  concept of the game. I went next and stumped them both for quite a while ... passionately making a reservation so you don't have to play I Spy for two hours ... of "Bring a flash drive to Italy, then we can go to internet cafes and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... above sorting out some payment for a meal we shared. Denmark doesn't use ... Program for a semester of study in the Cities in the 21st Century curriculum

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  counts for pretty much your whole grade. While this is not such a big deal to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... the real killer, all the exams for the entire year happen during a 2

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008