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• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  I was at the cusp of finishing, and my much ... “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT, the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad ... . Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to Canada before. Therefore, we were quite surprised by some of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave ... innovation might just be for you: That's right, for the low price of free you can find your MIT soulmate - provided that both of you like each

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  of us will be teaching at various schools all over Germany, using ... segway: At the end of the trip, I might even get to hop over to another ... two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  ?) Speaking of Andy Roddick, at the beginning of August, my roommate, Anna, came ... at the end of the game as the players were exiting the courts ... tennis at MIT, you have plenty of opportunities. There's a tennis gym class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  could! Yayy. (2) I know many of you are at the point in your school year ... some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a ... . Discouraged. Grateful. Angry. Glad. These are all words that at some point or

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  , the future of cars, and Bill Gates at once, even if it means I just have ... This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  60+ performing arts groups at MIT. There are also a lot of other cool ... 've spent the past several weeks with many of my colleagues, working long days and nights to match up all 1,100+ of you coming this weekend with

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my experience at CPW will be very different than that of a prefrosh, I'm inviting

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Graduation Webcast You can watch MIT's Commencement live and online.

  

  , including the Commencement Address by Ben Bernanke PhD '79, Chairman of the ... Webcast here The webcast begins at 8:20 am Eastern Daylight Time with a special "pregame show" hosted by Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection continues Regular Action domestic selection is underway.

  

  As you've read over at Ben's blog, the admissions officers are currently in the middle of regular action selection for domestic applicants ... through the holiday, and we'll continue working on the Class of 2010 every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Scholberg, now at Duke, doing particle-physics simulations. As part of the ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The summer begins…

  

  and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels ... at home with friends and family before heading to MIT. I'll be leaving this weekend to explore some of Europe by rail, and I promise to post

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  been answered at the end of it.) ... catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  breaking my screen... At that point, I literally stormed out of my house ... Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... time here at MIT. So like any good Type A personality, I've made a list

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  got into Reddit (bad idea at this time of semester), especially r ... How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014