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• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on ... . Some highlights of the event: - spaghetti wrestling - a human hamster ... attending the LuWOW on the West Side Campus, but the weather was kind of gross

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your ... process can be a difficult experience. For those of you who were admitted ... the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you do.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your ... that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of you who ... , I wish you the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you do.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... seriousness, starting a project was kind of a milestone for me in high school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ! Here are some of my thoughts. We want you to be yourself throughout this ... an admissions committee, we desire diversity of all sorts, we don't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the ... touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those national honors do. Why? Look at MIT's motto, Mens et Manus -- Mind and Hand ... look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the 224 suite complained that we stole one of their ideas. =P I've been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... sending in some of your work. Be sure your standardized test scores have

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

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester ... favorite day of the semester is actually the day they put up the full ... 't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  of slip-ups that have me dying with laughter at least once a day ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school ... realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... catching up on a lot of science fiction shows that I've been saving up during ... share a few of my many, many favorites: Foundation Richie Rating: 10⁹

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  through the events of a Friday. The game starts at midnight and continues ... , even though it may seem that way at first. The use of "you" through the ... you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  one of my closest friends at MIT. She introduced me to her UROP, and the ... ’ve necessarily mastered all of these things, but at the very least, they’re on my ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  the most points at the end of the week would win a big prize like an ... they played in between innings and at the end of the game. I tried my ... connected to it, with my perception of The Beths at concerts and radio shows

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  of Cakes - Food Network (I think if I ever met Duff or anyone at Charm ... single episode of all of these shows (though you'd probably be surprised at ... , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . swear at deer eating plants. do other stuff.  eh." "Wow Snively, you ... of my friends are plugging their ways towards their PhDs, have crazy

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  shook with rage. I narrowed my eyes, glaring at the orange ball ahead of ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... , gimme an A, gimme an S...' cheer," which is a personal favorite of mine

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008