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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  blocked from memory. Any sleep I lost was never found; TGIF took on a whole new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  , a D&D group in Next House, and I wrote about Singing for Service ... -ended final project where you can choose to focus on any computer graphics ... that could create a skeleton out of spheres (for the joints) and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... and sentimental. last week, i sent out a very small poll asking for ... . and a tweet (from a poet, chen chen, whom i love) that i personally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a ... --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... ." I'm not sure if this is a result of simply M A T U R I N G or spending

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  curiosity we have as a species I hope that gets into the minds and hearts of ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a high-altitude NASA plane that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  should do the same for you. This process can sometimes seem inhumane, but I ... -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... conference, and very informative. I didn't know a lot about admissions before I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  inside for a special tour. I'll show you a couple highlights, as well as ... him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  that we'll receive a packet of information at check-in. Can I still get ... "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random ... a bed?" And Mike Borohovski answered, "It depends on where/with whom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ,000 (for a handwritten note from President Obama), $12,500... Then, suddenly ... remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices ... a $1 thrift shop copy of Isaac Azimov’s I, Robot has little value

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  , there's only so much you can gather from small black letters pasted ... pains and pleasures of MIT for yourself, and give me a chance to play host ... time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  a boarding Catholic high school—for my fiction humanities class. I ... fraternity was getting new members. I had ideas for a second novel, Nkem, and ... of dreadful. Doing them in the absence of that I-can-I-will-this-is-what-I-came-here-for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  different from living in a dorm. For one, you're in closer quarters, so you ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  who I just spent New Years with in Virginia, for example, was a ... 've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a ... questions... Pia writes, "Last summer I interned at a Neuroscience Lab. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I ... that. Now that I'm a month into using Manjaro after using Windows for ... before they become very broken. For swim class, I bought a very cheap pair

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the ... committee for domestic applicants (including students deferred from early action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  have a propensity for time management. I have somehow never mustered up ... feeling absolutely miserable for no reason at all. I texted a friend, Lauren ... I was supposed to read, and then Lauren and I went for a walk and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that ... . For more information, be sure to check out other posts from regular admissions bloggers, or visit MIT's official site for LGBT issues. I remember

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  's Army orders called. His father is retired from the Army and working as a ... said. ''Now, I'm finally going where I want to be going.'' He'll live in a dorm and share a room with a student from Chicago. All Isaac knows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006