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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  Craftsmanship: Mikael K. '18 Mikael was born and raised in Los Angeles, and has ... defined by their mastery of rare tools, but by their mastery of common tools. Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  , and Los Angeles. I could talk about Tracy Kidder and Paul Farmer at ... I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  . In the last week of January, I visited my younger brother in Los ... Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine ... ’s Valentine’s Day, and that restaurant has three dollar signs,” one of them said

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  I skip pistol class to fly to Los Angeles (don't worry, Mike is cool ... period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face ... skipped band. Terrified at the prospect of my school calling my parents to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  . Also it's back in Los Angeles in a dumpster somewhere. The new toilet is ... Friday evening, after getting one of the more interesting emails of ... (with a view of the Great Dome), a lecture hall, an MIT professor's office

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Sunday morning, and even more unfortunately, we are both from Los Angeles ... small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT

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

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This code of ethics is: # Be subtle. Don't leave evidence that you were there ... saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  beautiful 270 degree view of the entire of city of Barcelona, the ocean in the ... importante aprender del canon de conocimiento de los otros. The flamenco of ... This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  atom bomb? Well Los Alamos is in the certified middle of nowhere, which ... Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  metaphor. California feels like the first world of many on this long, long ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  currently hold an undergraduate degree. Students who have already completed a bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  : ??? Uh oh. Visions of watching your friends receive their diplomas while ... You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools this month, I met a few California kids who told me they were also ... snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom ... , when I logged into WebSIS, I took special notice of a link that had been ... later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006