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• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  field, is routinely quoted in the New York Times, and he knows my name. So ... that at the moment. Questions and other such things: 1. War of the ... I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  of very recently, I'm an incoming Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL where I plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I ... found out that a long-lost childhood friend of mine was now a student at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  . Ignatius at Seattle University. Simmons Hall, in case you don't already know ... architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  is relatively new and not super defined right now. So, instead of ... at MIT and in Boston. While I feel like I've taken advantage of it, I ... did in 2023: Went on a senior trip to New York with friends

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ...  "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• 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 / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  university, at least with my qualifications. And yet they kept going. And kept ... work to maybe get to where he is one day, and at the end of the day, no ... old act of feeling stupid at MIT will grow old and people will no longer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around ... universities and I didn't have the benefit or services of a college counselor

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... New York short, which was a huge bummer. But I wanted time to rest, and ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  expectations, (3) accepting new ideas, and (4) offering individual attention as ... first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I ... . Her parents want her to go abroad to the University of Paris. She’s not ... ’s a lot of opportunity at MIT to open up and explore things you haven

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  . 71. At the same time that I applaud Tokyo for its number of public ... big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Weirdest conversation overheard: A parent chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK" and their two children chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK" back. Conclusion: It ... of my poem in my room, so I had to walk back to EC. At EC, I realized I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  office,[/annotation] on the second floor of a new building, E38, which is the new home of the admissions office, as well as the MIT Welcome Center, part of the the Institute's new front door in Kendall Square. The new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about ... . Despite being a New York native all my life, this is the first time I ... aware of my own mortality, at the very real prospect of being gone in an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your Physics ... at the idea of having to discuss that academic disaster with the recent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the ... was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to hold so much life at once. It can be the kind of quiet that invites ... with us at lunch, how Deans of DSL and MIT psychiatrists shed their roles ... This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018