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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  the meaning of the highlights in the Fake Bezel: Construction: The ... Premiere! And so, after three beautiful years of Ring Premiere blog entries, I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  entire life: my family’s house in Los Angeles (one week and 18 years ... , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers ... . And I love the creative process of writing, which has been part of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  Angeles. And I was immediately hooked. All of the finalists were bursting ... become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... every step forward with humility. And while all of those moments and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  . Los Angeles is filled with murals sprawling over twenty-story-tall brick ... some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch, unaltered by three years of transcontinental distance. It was my first time

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  texts and phone and video calls do carry over some of the California ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comodidad y facultad ¿Te asusta postularte en facultades lejos de casa? Entonces, lee esto.

  

  Piensa en los paisajes, los aromas y los rostros familiares de tu ... una institución te ofrezca gloria, pero tengas que sacrificar los paisajes, los aromas y los rostros familiares a los que estás acostumbrado

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  As you've probably heard, Southern California is being devastated by ... have been destroyed. From myself and all of my colleagues in Admissions ... and prayers are with you. We know that for some of you, it may be weeks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  you Stanford!!!!* So by now you might think you have a fair idea of ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start-up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three"]once.[/annotation] I was ... liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... occasionally found rusty nails, broken glass, and bits of pottery we thought were

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to Sacramento for the first central meeting of my California trip. Over ... to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  of California's largest botanical gardens, Descanso, I recently (well ... Ranch in Los Olivos, California (no one was allowed on the property). Too ... Pasadena, California. One of the first things that I did this summer was hike

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  've been dealing with work issues, and have been in California for the last ... can see a bit of the East Campus interior. I'll also be starting some ... occupied for the balance of the summer. I have to say -- the weather in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  sake of adding the name of a second subject to their diploma. I'm really ... important feature of your degree track should be later flexibility. Will it ... I've been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  , Medi-Cal (California's version of Medicaid), and Healthy Families ... ; sponsored by the state California)). Fully 97.9% of the patients fall below ... water but keeps on vomiting it up, fever of over 100 degrees, has no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  ! Caltech's 'prank' this year was pretty sweet - they make a fake issue of the ... MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The ... Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1988 ... college admissions-themed scholarship competition. The first of six episodes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , we are nearing the end of our series Introducing the Class of 2013. An important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... this. Without further ado, here they are, as written about by members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  ’t actually know how to do them. And this “fake it til you’re happy” thesis of ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020