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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet, filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  day.) The FLL program is the elementary and middle school version of ... choices: high school seniors are choosing where they are going to college ... students make their decision), high school juniors are choosing where they

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... , traced the design from my projector (what, you didn't think I actually had ... moods, and this was one of those times -- but this one was definitely

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a ... from conception to design was one of the best parts. Now one thing MIT ... projects, do those last minute problem sets, and perhaps design a wind

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here ... —the company that created one of my favorite arcade games, Castle Crashers ... Dear Esther and Journey. Live video game music is one of my favorite

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I ... anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  extremely hard towards my degree just like all of you here. And I still ... up my first year of grad school. I was never fully set on doing an ... On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of ... successful in our 2.007 Design Competition, but the rest of his lecture he ... So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  offer. A lot of people are wary of the statement that "CPW is fake - you ... myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  Rhode Island School of Design. I majored in Illustration and I knew I ... photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... more “keep it light-hearted” and “make sure the designs of the skeletons

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest ... think of it, represent the school on a public admissions blog almost

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... ’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... design stuff. Then I run back to the dorm, finish my psets and study for my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -old Galena High School student, who now finds himself the recipient of a major scholarship while also being accepted to one of the most prestigious schools in ... all four years of his high school career. During his time representing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... : humanitarian crisis, deeply divisive politics and high-profile incidents of terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... undergrads generally send most of their graduating seniors to other schools ... information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 21,706 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2022. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 20,247 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2021. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017