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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  was particularly excited that one of the new astronauts was Kate Rubins of the Rubins Lab at MIT. Her lab hosts a number of undergraduate UROP ... number of MIT grads in space at one time, though -- last November, 4 MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at the beautiful new conference center at Harvard Medical School, the New ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of ... to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... that all tend to release within several days of each other. At this point

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

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra ... feature histories of each major at MIT. I *really* want to know if one ... At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... (Note of warning: this entry may be short, because I seriously

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  credits before the beginning of the second semester (one semester at MIT ... additional credits, you will qualify for sophomore standing at the end of your ... Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  stairwell at New House 3 on Saturday. The good news is that this mishap didn ... throughout the entire weekend at CPW, I took all of, like, fifteen pictures ... - read on. Each one of those balls represents a new person I met, or a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad ... freshman, because there's a lot of downtime, so I was pretty much stuck at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being surprised at what this entry was about and where it came from. Er.. let ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  of the company, university, research institute (if you will be UROPing ... singles from the same album (courtesy Mitra). You all left a lot of lovely ... all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  years. *Furrows brow in direction of New Haven* ... number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  all back with new entries. Cool. On the topic of blogs, does anyone ... 's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  the Full New England Autumn Experience, but some parts of campus are ... calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  allele’ at 2 am, six hours before pset is due*) 21M.294 (Popular Music of ... that generously-portioned shahi paneer and chicken pakora at the end of a ... living at the confluence of a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and an economic

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... someone new. Having taken sophomore standing****, I’m technically not a freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  officially had an offer.  I’ll be working at an[annotation note="I'm painfully ... California at a reasonable price has been nothing short of painful BUT I ... -technical side of science[/annotation]at a school that tends to emphasize the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of ... that none of them had any shows soon. and improv sounded fun. at the ... potential new actors. and they put on a great show! there were lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  , working on a project that is looking at the vulnerability of the different ... It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010