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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  you feel like you've learned anything in college?" She was genuinely ... Part I: Academics   "You do know that MIT is unlike almost any other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During ... In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  than I can count. Now, I mourn for student governance at MIT. I once ... emails that you don’t want to show up in school newspapers. Collaboration ... For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  if you like video games at all, then you're probably familiar with e3 (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in ... -11 demo. apparently, if you weren't in line in the first three minutes of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  idea in December 2013, right around the time Amazon announced Prime Air.   As most of you probably know, we have long sent our admitted students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Epic Split Feat. Tim Beaver (Live Test 6.28) with apologies to jcvd, enya...everyone, really.

  

  A few months ago Volvo released an ad called The Epic Split in which Jean-Claude Van Damme did a split between two trucks as they drove side-by-side backwards into the sunset. It was an epic split, but, in our estimation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  A couple days after the blizzard, I walked around campus and took some quick shots of all the snowpeople-and-other-things in sight. They ... scrambling to finish the Sketchbook Project (introduced in this post), and this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena ... someone. 3:57 AM In Bed. Will wake up at 8 am and read it over one more

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  in. And if you’re like most every regular action college applicant ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... decision”) on your screen. So you wait a bit longer. That’s all you can do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester ... “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So ... section leader position in a weekly Engineering Leadership Lab (ELL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me ... another friend 2 while friend 1 was in a meeting 7:15 pm – took the bus to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  bluegrass, those songs are no where to be found on this list (though you ... are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R should not be confused with Rs (can't do subscripts, sorry), which refers

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... -destroyer, so I could just say "you have C's and D's, what more can I tell you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  last five years. Know that you will always hold a special place in my ... simple walk home across the bridge counting the Smoots as I go brings all ... comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  'm optimistic. If you're the guy mentioned in this blog entry, I was so shocked ... something and let me know. I can introduce you to Mitra. ... . Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  speaker series in the Admissions Office. We asked a number of faculty ... (!). He plans to play in Europe next year (maybe with Kobe Bryant?).     M.I.T. Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix By BILL FINLEY  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  . To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of the best. Don't let this stop you from doing all of the great things in ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  featuring me in a guest post so i can go full circle and share my own story ... , but in short it's good if you are getting on bigger/longer poles). i had to go up in length (12’ to 13’), and different length poles bend

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  ." Eek. Maybe I'll waltz in on Sept 6 and say "ALAN! Hello, Alan. Can I ... with Alan Guth? If you don't, quick synopsis: my section hadn't received ... random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you ... . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... (and huge crowds!) in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago (both the city and

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006