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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  When I grow up, I want to be Suzan-Lori Parks. Only, you know, not ... to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... 's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  , probably because I had to much work. Do you always wait for the longest day ... , apparently the residents were strapped for cash one day and decided to sell the ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer. Classes end this Wednesday, then we have one day to study (most schools get ... . Volunteers meet outside of McCormick and travel to Lawrence, MA to work on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  (remember, we're professionals); newer readers might take 30-45 minutes to fully evaluate and summarize a folder. We're expected to read applications at least 4 full days each week (including weekends), in addition to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... I interact with who have known me long enough to know what I talk like, and therefore don't feel compelled to comment). I certainly use some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a ... 'd like to go to grad school, but right now I'm not sure in exactly what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... to the third largest Cambodian community in the world behind Phnom Penh ... interesting (at least to me). In the film, all three teens were from low income

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college. Naturally, when I got to campus two weeks ago, one of my first priorities was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically this semester, and she seemed to be pretty embarrassed about this. BUT ... ? So I went to bed, and the next day I woke up, and I was like: “Gasp

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify ... some international work. I’ve gotten to advise government departments

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that ... traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  important to floor culture, so this is pretty tragic. Thankfully, efforts to ... murals may be restored. Also, sliding wall panels for students to paint on ... 's living communities. And that's why I'd like to showcase/preserve some of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  :)     The statement reads, Tarnished Horizons Dedicated to the lives disrupted by climate change Tarnished Horizons is intended to ... strongly encourage the MIT administration to step away from embracing the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid ... algorithm-based sensory attachment that connects to any footwear insole, uses high-precision radar and real-time GPS to automatically avoid obstacles

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... breakfast, while my brother and I groggily walked to the kitchen. I liked it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... have learned that happiness, to me, is books, rivers, forests

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... in the Cambridge community. Learn what it means to install public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014