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• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... -student interaction? While sitting in 10.37: Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design this ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have ... , I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to ... rooms when people try to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  . RELAX. This is your last year of high school. Enjoy it! Definitely don ... Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it ... ), and statistical learning theory (9.520). outside of coursework, i ... other and/or 2) we graduate. lots of puzzle hunts and concerts lined up

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  school truck full of engineering toys. Check them out: So yeah ... . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  Well, grad school interviews and visiting weekends are done! This weekend I visited Harvard Medical School's Biological and Biomedical ... of questions MIT alums ask each other when they meet: what course were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  way of allowing myself rest within this school year. [caption id ... the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  spending money on top of the money they were already paying for school. So ... lot of money to apply to graduate school (GRE general test, GRE subject ... note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  together. True design is the very core of a product, which manifests itself ... philosophy, which is why I've always dreamed of joining their Product Design ... points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... designed and administered in 2014. The takeaway: young women at MIT are every ... work outside of academics. The report also shows differences among the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word: cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both slowly fusing ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  myself was in my high school production of Les Miserables my senior year. I ... relationship between three floors--Conner 2, Conner 3, and Conner 5. I think of ... 's degree but still lives nearby, so she bakes you fresh cookies every once in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  of “Ostalgia,” building designed by SANAA Thomas Schutte ... work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of these two schools. See: Untitled (Passport) Untitled (Passport), 1991

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  we already have. Also note that while some of your schools submitted ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... year out of MIT: Another $10. Second year:$10 + $10 = $20. Third year

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012