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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where ... software to stick. I brought it down to the NASA computing center about 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  the lyrics and we'd go over them together, learning to translate the ... took here my first semester was 21F.716, Introduction to Contemporary ... have a lot of similarities, so I'm already used to conjugating verbs and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for ... are very different. It would probably be much easier to start with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of ... to make you float. Butterflies that might want to make you vomit. But whatever it is that you're feeling, you know that there is only one way to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... we put together a custom 2000-piece puzzle and watched Mamma Mia! with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine. (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated

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

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  I've been feeling guilty with these questions piling up so close to ... Virginia) to answer some questions. Props to my old buddy John (Caltech '08 ... are on the 4th page and the last page to verify that everything is "true

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

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the ... . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  I have never read any of Marie Kondo's books, nor have I claimed to ... wanted my room to be as clean as possible, with everything straightened and as little stuff to trip over as possible. When we moved apartments

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to piece assignments together, I'd tell myself, "College will be ... In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  interesting to read classic and modern works together. For example, I highly ... Though it may be difficult to believe, sometimes MIT students like to ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  all together?" Matt '00 replies: Teacher recommendations do not need to ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in this entry. I'd like to be helpful as you prepare to submit your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a modern piece, and boy, was it fascinating (and at times, difficult to learn ... , led by MIT Music and Arts Lecturer Mark Harvey. They treated us to a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... your finger to a problem set and then fall asleep, sitting down, half an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify ... ...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this ... 've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who encouraged me to work on projects that interested me, even if they were

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025