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• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely ... waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really ... -efficient retrofits in low-income housing. I made a few site visits along the way

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  in a nameless crowd. Home is where your absence would be noticed. Home ... I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite ... .V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to ... Oxfam International, lots of people who are interested in making a change ... Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  - this blog, kept by a local New Orleans reporter, is a great primary source. If you've found other things like this, feel free to add them in ... Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  responsibility," he says, "especially like in my family in Georgia. My mom is a ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of ... , the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  country of your choice, given that there is a MISTI program available in ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT--participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  . Fortunately, each decision is made on a case-by-case basis and depends on your ... for calculus) and calculus-based physics. It’s rare that an applicant is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... yourself in a way that is reasonable for you, while making sure that your ... into their imagination enough," Jones says. Her remedy: "Let's free up a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  Let's start off with a little riddle. What is white, at least 2500 ... Busycle. The Busycle is a public art/community building/environment project ... event. Technically, the busycle is considered a bike so they'll be

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... Mediterranean for a birthday lunch at Vlora, right over in Copley Square. As it's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  . Finally, a big change is that everything is proof-based (as I write this, I ... former “child prodigy” who is now a math professor at UW-Madison. This one ... have also taken very few of those. My perspective is that of someone who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  's arrival in Boston. Christina, the girlfriend of a Fifth East resident, is a ... , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright-eyed, eighteen-year-old baby boy was born. In his future lies a childhood, with all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a ... . Brewster Kahle is the MIT-educated former entrepreneur who began building the ... Cambridge-based supercomputer company, and later started WAIS, a company that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  components. On top of the base, there is a moon which is a sphere, so that was ... , which is right below. I used a hexagon in my sketch and revolved the shape ... -watching shows in the dark hours of the night. As a nocturnal creature known as a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is ... . But who cares! I met all of them, got a sense of what they’re like, and ... dressing up a statue in honor of the ending of a TV show. It's the little

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... ?" Sometimes they didn't know the difference, which is a tragedy that deserves

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  Kevin Rustagi '11 is a designer, entrepreneur, and musician whom I ... face? And behind that – what’s in the walls? And beyond that who’s inside ... , MIT is a no-limits place. I audited the class as a sophomore with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it ... advising. is it bad to be in a dorm and not have a chance to reenter the dorm ... write it (this is my project, anyway, and I've been working on it for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor ... advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018