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• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the ... date on this song makes me more than a little nostalgic. I did a lot in ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  country where it never snows. :) On a equally festive note, my dorm, i ... So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... , practices became focused and I began to compete in individual tournaments. I ... family. Everyone brings something unique and amazing to the team and I can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  where I don't have to sacrifice one for the other. To learn how you can ... FAP I signed up for a freshman advising seminar in the arts called FASAP ... I'm doing both. In a sense, the two influence each other. I'm a better

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... wall to change in size. I was my team's Information Officer, which meant ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... lights. (I was temp'ed in EC during CPW) How much is the real MIT like that ... and 8 nights was the itinerary, if I recall correctly. We would camp in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... , suggesting I put triangles in the black and white spaces in the "W","X", and "M ... serif). So since I couldn’t change it, I made alternatives. In fact I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  together into one photo entry so I can move on with my blogging life (and ... DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5'10" tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5'9 3/4" tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it ... backgrounds, and only if they can demonstrate that [annotation note='In other ... the term, over the last decade or so, just in terms of things we can

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  have asked them, haven’t you?), our ECs can be busy. Getting in touch ... around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application ... mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third ... zonotope themselves. Notice how, when I drew the edges in this example, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... instructors told me each experiment we do in 6.2410 (around two hours each) can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025