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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  . Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ... on that later. But first, a State of the Institvte address. The school year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I ... this summer. There was some great food courtesy of the MIT Faculty Club

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  topics. For the best source of information, please visit web ... the deadline to accept MIT's offer of admission? You need to return our ... is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... 't really done any laundry or things of the sort, so I had to rush. Fortunately, none of the banks I went to seemed to have Euros so I had to take

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of ... application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese ... (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... . Lunch: Salami and cheese sandwhiches have been the staple of my lunch

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... of my very favorite things in life, which is somewhat sensible if you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT ... , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... in Baker but that year, I also joined ZBT, one of MIT's fraternities ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds ... 'll move the information sessions out of the admissions reception area and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the ... to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... kind of letter instead of that portion of the application, just outlining ... of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen of MIT's new president, a big Red Sox winning streak... a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  rooms when people try to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we ... begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have ... of information - academics and research, athletics, student life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  here at MIT.  We’re both active members of the dance community; we joined Mocha Moves in Fall ‘19 and are members of Dance Troupe, but I’ve done it ... ’s memey and lots of fun MissBehavior — an all-female urban dance team; has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... 'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... ’t really give out a lot of advice on these blogs. A year ago, on a post

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • December 30, 2021