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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  . Doesn't matter if you're a high school student, a college graduate, an 82 ... found helpful in high school though was reading through the admissions ... of the dorms) built a roller coaster in their courtyard that prefrosh

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  'll have to think of what to exhibit! LOBBY 7 DESIGN COMPETITION: Also as part of MIT's 150 celebration, there's a design competition focused on ... of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog ... student group that designs the Brass Rat and manages events like Ring

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing ... first taste of fall. Yeah, I will admit I am freezing my butt off. But

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  of 1929 when senior class president C. Brigham Allen brought together a member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... bezel of ring. The Committee looked to the original discussion over the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  the summer after my junior year of high school. That summer, I found ... whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the School of Architecture at MIT ... the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  to know the majority of people at the school. Size is an implicit ... if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having ... situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  universities and medical schools offer biomedical engineering (or bioengineering ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom ... for help much faster than I did in high school, but I wonder how much of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  limited amount of time to design, build, and program a robot to compete. The ... the intro over and over again in random nooks of whatever school we were ... global nonprofit organization that runs after-school STEM programs and

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  :) After that, it's back to school. Boston's been dealing with a lot of snow ... I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  , preparing the structural design of a building system for a 3-story building ... since my senior year of high school (Hi Ms. Graglia!), so it has been kind ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  of Purpose required by grad schools is probably the hardest thing you ... all grad-school applicants, when they write their first draft of the ... personally; (4) able to take on the challenges of grad school; (5) able to have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  , which runs throughout the month of January"]IAP.[/annotation] I also got hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five ... the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn ... undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008