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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... important point about MIT. At many universities, policy-makers act under the ... , including a half-hour conversation with Jeff '06, President of Random Hall, at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am ... grandparents were visiting from New York. They knew we had a bad week so they ... ’t work because of weird lighting from the sun at that time. (5) 5:00pm

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  weird. That's a function of the pandemic, though, and of opening a new dorm, and of opening a new dorm during a pandemic. I predict it'll be at ... , we arrive at my floor. Each floor of Vassar is split into three

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong ... MIT's offer of admission, which is full of goodies about everything from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  courses would allow me to explore new ways of bringing visibility to this ... and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  the Cold War or the ending of The Matrix trilogy, academic life at MIT ... disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... still hard at work cutting the final pieces of cardboard. 5:23 PM

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  ). If you just want to see the fruits of our labor/insomnia, show up at ... was able to buy one of the last tickets at 3 AM. Thanks to Dave, the ... train was suddenly filled. Apparently Stamfordians like to go to New York

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  already taken courses at Cornell University and at the Massachusetts ... of Phillip and Gina Smith. His father is an electrical engineer at BAE ... . Smith was one of two-dozen New Hampshire students nominated by their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  'll see that this is a place of heartbreaking defeats -- but at the same ... leave Boston in New York, and trust me, there will be days when you miss ... , write all the notes, finish your work at the end of the day and go home

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... new light on the history of the French capital. We also discussed what ... FLC has done a great job with offering freshmen new cultural experiences

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from ... from the waitlist. Students who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... of non-americans would balk at the fact that it took me 5 hours on a ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... at MIT. For those of you who have already decided where you're going to ... MIT culture is like, at least as reflected by the kinds of events that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  New York City for the rest of my life and live out my days...doing what ... I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... particularly hedonistic weekend in the desert of California at Coachella a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  the driving test, this is not a strong indicator of my actual chances at ... boyfriend for a week and see some friends in New York City. In August, I ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014