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• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking ... lectures feeling a lot better about the difficulty of classes at MIT - they ... one with you - with full knowledge of the fact that I'll probably never

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  my daily nonantics. Speaking of boring, I had a four-hour shift at ... way up at the top of this post.) Anyway, a long-ish time ago in a land ... behind. I've had a multitude of amazing opportunities at MIT, and I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer ... less than a normal semester... read more at http://web.mit.edu/housing/undergrad/summer.html. Some folks choose to spend summers at fraternity or sorority houses

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  at MIT. He is studying asteroids in the main belt of the Solar System ... Astronomy at the Univeristy of Hawaii, but he also has a faculty advisor in ... have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  complex story arcs and character development, and at the end of its 74 ... at young boys"]shounen[/annotation] and ends in a pit of darkness. It ... At long last...the [annotation note="anime/manga/general Japanese

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new ... -tier research mentors and an exceptional peer group. MIT PRIMES and Art of Problem

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  emotions at the time. The first day of snow finally came during Thanksgiving ... fell I finally felt at home again, with all the memories of building ... -needed peace of mind. This year, the snow has come at a much more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... of my classes. What went really badly? I was very terrible at keeping

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms, whip out our new planners and notebooks and folders. It's a new academic

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  at least as normal as things can be less than two weeks before the ... so yet. The MyMIT hardware failure did not affect the data of the vast majority of applicants. We have personally contacted the small set of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Hockey Aero/Astro 6 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1 Alumni goal: David ... nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction ... most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... sufficiently absurd, but at least they will (probably) laugh (or cry) at your pi jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... of us arrived at the Dave Powers Room in the Constitution Inn in Boston ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a proud cadet at Air Force ROTC Det 365

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  of alumni friends messaging you to tell you that their company could ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt ... major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  at 0530. I might have woken my roommates, but it was early enough that ... stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... . Like, I had walking pneumonia at least twice in high school, have managed

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... understood what I was talking about at all, and Mrs. O'Brien told me I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006