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• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  there. I made new friends at the Twitch office, where I commuted almost ... in Palo Alto, marveling at the beauty of Stanford campus as I biked ... maybe did exactly once and spent the vast majority of Wednesdays at her

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality ... course, I turned down a job as head literary critic for the New York Times ... depressing read, although Foer does find several new (to me) ways of expressing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  Boston right at sunset showed me a view of the city I had never seen before ... had considered taking a day trip to Salem or even New York, but the ... small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  New York City! Michigan My first stop is Southeast Michigan - the place ... . The next day, we slept in, and went to a late brunch at one of my ... New Hampshire, has some of the most beautiful foliage in the Fall

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  stats: who am I? Jude, 20 years old originally from New York ... worried about) sort of had ideas of studying chemistry at first, but then ... on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  must have written at least a hundred different stories, most of them ... , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... staring at the face of the killer, you’ve forgotten the wash of emotions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Growing up there wasn't a kid at school who didn't dream of robotic suits ... of news we have two groups at MIT who are both working on robotic arm ... question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  really make something of that time? "MIT 09er who's not at ISEF" wrote ... capable not just of doing the work at MIT but capable of much greater things ... that. In fact, most of my friends at MIT were like me -- no HS research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  story. In 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a ... Brass Rat Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  what the MIT culture is like, at least as reflected by the kinds of ... classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived on campus for their orientation, of which one major component is Residential

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... . The Head of the Student Exchange office at ETH was also present to ... and the path of least resistance to stay at MIT, take the classes I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  weenie. So since some of the categories don't have many entries at the ... across campus, especially at 2 AM. All types of freshman advising, I ought ... 't accept AP credit, but require that premed classes be taken at a university

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <   You can ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 687. These students hail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can log ... offered early admission to 707. These students hail from more than 486 high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... admission to MIT this year, and we have offered early admission to 625. We can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  shifted over time. At first, listening to this new wave music was an act of ... 've never been the best at argumentative papers. I researched a lot of ... I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  new course 20) was limited to 20 students for the class of 2009. Was it ... acceptance forms to MIT at the beginning of this week. I was discussing my ... they want to study engineering, while other universities offer wider

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006