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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  and care are everywhere at the Institute. update March 2025: last ... . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one ... Engineering just posted a short video about Glenn and his time and contributions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  author. That’s not a job. Not a career. And these reasons feel fake to me ... life” felt more “fake” than everything else, and because of that, I didn ... my summer at home, and that it would be nice to make some money. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  metaphors of the United States being a mixing pot vs. a mixed salad and which ... because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... because our assignments are READING really cool videogame articles and then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  each other, but with MIT upperclassmen, and Institute staff members. We ... college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... , Northeastern University, Tufts University, and Wellesley College, among others ... action, 295 the year before, 267 the year before that, and 326 the year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... University (Jan. 1), and Wellesley College (Jan. 15), among others.] Should I ... the year before, and 326 the year before that) What should I do now? I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... ), Tufts University (Jan. 1), and Wellesley College (Jan. 15), among others ... : last year, we admitted 267 deferred students during regular action, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  QinQin Yu Freshmen MIT-France Program Internship: Institut N ... Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in ... all parts of the world and help them determine their magnetic properties

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my ... faculty and professors that we'd previously invited, and a generally good ... hall, and he hadn't been back in the building since the early 1970s. Talk

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  attending university and maybe graduate school as well. I would like to major ... second-ever Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) @ MIT Fly-In program. Students spent the weekend exploring the city, attending workshops, and

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  , and single-digit-with-windchill-in-the-negative-twenties to 46-degrees-and ... Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me around the country and world. This IAP, however, I had the most free time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  college apps. A lot of universities have January 1st deadlines, and that ... -semester grades, and the university you ultimately attend may rescind you if you ... , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  morning presents me with a beautifully quiet campus. I wake up early and ... it a very personal and productive time.For example, the early morning ... four stove burners are available, and no one else is using the sink. At

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the ... video games and fan communities. His conclusions have helped put them squarely into a historical context of artistic and creative activities. Much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  and excellence. Success was 'having:' money, awards, status. Excellence ... . Pursue excellence, Coach would say, and success will follow.” - Deena ... bestselling novelist, but Murakami wrote an entire book about life and running

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , physics, and calculus (these classes are known as the General Institute ... frequent state of confusion and dismay, which culminated in me not passing ... 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  ”, “Harry-Potter-style city”, a world-famous university with 61 Nobel ... picked up in England) and last but not least, the place where the structure ... am Linh, a junior majoring in Biology (Course 7) and I am currently

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Tulane University and will attend MIT for the semester. ''I am a bit ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... reviewed, revised, maintained and repaired as needed," he said. "To see a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  between the courses you're interested in and major requirements. At MIT, a ... semester system universities. Most classes are 12 units; some are 3, 6, 9, or ... science, math, and writing, so I've chosen the following mixture of classes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020