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  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... this carpet sporting a bright “Go Longhorns” shade of orange, and a life

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to pretend that temperatures like that don’t exist. Anyways. The point of all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  Ask MIT students what they like about MIT, and many of them will say ... "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and ... individuals when they are asked the question of what they like about MIT and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web ... one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maine. Soon after, we'll hit California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  California over it. It was one of the most serene, yet also one of the ... DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year. ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management ... tomorrow night, Joanne will be competing with 16 women for the title of "Miss

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  -year programs. In fact, for the chemical engineering degree, instead of doing a ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up and down the California coast visiting friends and family. I worked last

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  break with my parents and my favorite sister (she’s kind of my only sister, but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  livestock is dwindling, replaced by the distasteful urbanity of a Southern ... was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was one of those experiences where you come away with distinct feelings

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023