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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  into the kitchen to enjoy a free dinner. Remarking on the quality of the ... .01, he expressed a desire to visit Trader Joe's, a local grocery store ... warm homemade dinners. A late-evening meal at Random Hall tonight was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really ... automatically patching a Linux kernel without reboots. Jeff Arnold '07, MEng '08

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The ... . IAP provides a huge number of experiences to take advantage of. Here is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  proceeded to…well…post a blog? And, that's it. I think we all learned ... So, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a man who was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to send an official college transcript?

  Applicants who have completed college coursework are asked to submit ... entered as a supplemental document in your file. Enrolling first ... will be required to submit an official college transcript.
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... needed. for a while we thought we’d need to run the av and next sing sound ... next sing speaker to serve as a monitor during the concert (a monitor is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such ... education, I felt compelled to try. So Stephen, a few of us here at ... Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to ... Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... is that we have a tendency to want kids to look alike. We want them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the ... : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it ... invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... there to help! Until then, try not to worry too much. If you want a ... all could use a little support from time to time.

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... the Air. Issues with Macs If you are going to be a Mechanical Engineer you should avoid a Mac. That's not to say you can't have one, but your

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  “someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday” it's tetris two electric boogaloo

  

  This is a follow up to my first Tetris on the Green Building blog ... back in the fall of my first year was intended to be a Mario movie watch ... a video to the VGO Discord. Justin quickly responded with a mix of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 15, 2026
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  . The talk inspired me to do a computer project with my high school teacher, which I made a video demo and sent it to Professor Maes. She was nice enough to write back with a very encouraging message, and we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the questions they ask for their assignments. So here's a short collage of some of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Travel

  Motion of Manhattan and other photos from the busy city next door.

  

  More snippets of life; A sequel photoblog to Colors of Campus Series inspired by Kai’s Parallel Universe Post

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 29, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... feel a little less alone, a little more grounded as i try to keep my head ... to chill out a little so that we can have an actual long weekend, but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  All transcripts must be submitted by a school counselor or another school representative to be considered official. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your school does not have a school
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of pressure trying to summarize myself in a few sentences. Should I mention the ... . When I arrived via shuttle to MIT, a campus police officer watched me

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014