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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  by offering you a spectrum of opportunities. It's called Pilot 2021 ... pantry, or for late-night meals at a new café in Walker Memorial, opening ... to living at MIT. Let us know you want to become part of Pilot 2021

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  University. In 1999, she received the National Academy of Sciences Troland ... At this Friday's Campus Preview Weekend Keynote (10am, Kresge ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of ... " competition. At Curious George (where many of my friends went for the Book 5 ... So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  about their worries and we shared something at the top of an abnormally ... ecstasy of hot water and then cold, over and over, next to the mountains. At ... convenience store. Finally I went to another land, another edge of this universe

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  students? [answer at the end of the entry] Beginning Sunday until the end of ... . But you won't be at any disadvantage if you can't come. For those of ... helpful? What hasn't been helpful at all? And for those of you planning to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  overview of interests before I wound up at the Institute. Fetus Era For the ... procrastinating every second away looking at all the interesting aspects of each ... 't pset till I drop"]Wouldn’t it be cool to take a new language at MIT

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... practiced at MIT. I struggled to understand what was the point of all the research at MIT, some of which I was involved with, if successful research

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... ) resulted in a score of -313, but at least it returned something! Baby steps ... describing my sophomore year right now. This was me at the beginning of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  pair of pointy slipper. Him walk over and squint at Grunk. "Huh," him say ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  videos, compiled from the great people at MIT TechTV and (of course) You ... For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  down and hit up an onsen (hot springs) at the base of the mountain. It ... the 7th station I used my expertly honed-at-MIT abilities of being able ... fear of heights, and I knew at that point I had to keep going.) Lucky

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at ... , they seemed to have trouble deciding which side of the hallway offered

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read at Diesel Cafe. Reading is kind of like studying: everyone needs to ... !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... , instead of what I’m doing right now. tick This is [annotation note='like Las ... quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility ... interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions ... of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  the cost of a new pair of shoes. And I think it’s more than fair to say ... me at least start answering a lot of my questions about life and impact ... guided by a definition given at the beginning of the chapter, which I found

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and ... days, it can be ten to fifteen minutes of standing at the stop. Generally ... at work until 5 PM, I’m not going to be productive for the rest of the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007