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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  across the bridge would be complete without discussions of the design, the ... cardboard. We quickly designed a series of tests to determine the true culprit ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  tough deciding which one I'd like. The allure of one offer is that their ... of The compressive properties and function-composition relationships of developing bovine articular cartilage. So needless to say hopping out of bed

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn ... at another school, and I'd say, "Well, I really don't like that, so I ... of a combination of P/NR, taking easier classes, and just an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  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 ... morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  before." Taking her up on her offer, I pored over many of the pamphlets in ... debate. Just like every political debate, the "Constitutionality" of ... Books of the Year" (Wall Street Journal) "100 Notable Books of the Year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  Name: Anjum Sharma Hometown: Perkasie, PA Degree and Minor: 15 with a ... time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  gatherings offer fantastic opportunities to meet some of your potential future ... admissions officers are celebrating the end of application season. Also, this ... incredible team of Educational Counselors and other great alumni to put

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  textbook excerpt, or some other kind of article, and then discuss the design ... Unix operating system talking about some of the main design choices of ... lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us ... ! Every day, and from all over the world, we receive offers of lucrative ... One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  video was designed to remind alums of all the reasons they love MIT, but I ... Manhattan, but I'm not complaining. That's one of the things I love about New York - you can find every single kind of person here, even Red Sox fans

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  : It's Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876, MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  in Seattle, W.A. where most girls wore the hijab in school as part of ... back to the very first week of college. One of my friends offered me a ... freshman year at MIT. Coming back to school in the fall, I of course didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... . It is the smallness of the bullet that gives it power. Likewise

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really. Several times lately I've found myself saying, "So a couple of weeks ago ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... 't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020