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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ILGs at MIT and some of their members were so kind as to include ... for most aspects of life at the house, including house government

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the ... to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  /animatics of Steven Universe episodes. It was SO cool to see how such simple and ... Comics class at MIT, but got more of a grasp for this skill in the two ... chart, we have a variety of thoughts about learning art and animation at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  -dried backpacking meals, ice cream, Shin ramen, and sous-vide’d New York strip streaks ... hundreds of disposable plastic utensils I'm not throwing into landfills, because of one simple choice. Living an examined life starts with the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  New York City partly so I could live at home. But more importantly, I ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... , if you’d like. What follows are this CPW’s super-exciting events at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  tag was labeled with the same number). At the end of the week, my mom drove me to Washington, DC, where I moved into one of the dorms at George ... considering going back to the NIH, and I had an offer at Genentech, but I really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  line for McDonald’s at 7 AM somewhere in the middle of New York state; I ... each individual circumstance. At the end of the day, MIT won West Point ... . So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and ... , including at the only other college I'm aware of that has an admissions ... some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  department faculty. I also met a lot of new people from all over the area ... way to meet new people and get some fun memories out of your time here ... production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first ... is "Sunday Magazine" , which posts articles from the New York Times ... befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was repulsed by the smell of industrial fumes along the New Jersey Turnpike ... physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... time. The last day of was particularly hectic. The conference ended at 6 ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won't have any impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the ... . Going to university puts you in a dorm with dozens of people with ... opinions at face value. There have been tons of times where I blurt something

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  . Looking at their list of currently sponsored schools, I don't think they ... 11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  first discovered at MIT. Both of them were recieved better than my first ... exclamations... so, if you look at a phrase and say "oh dear," you're out of luck ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  than threats." To universally accept this concept, of course, would ... issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  weekend, but those people are from Connecticut or New York. The trip to ... : The Story of My Phone: At some point several weeks ago, the screen on ... Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010