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• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in August and completely fell in love with it, I wouldn't have even applied ... about the competition I was facing and the level of excellence that would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my head. The warmth, which had faded, returned, and lingered over the past month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  -tech stoves. The instructor kept offering trainings, and to supply new materials ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even though it's a summer course) THAT COMBINES BIOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA AND LETS

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  's often very windy, and that day it was about -8 degrees C. But inside the ... , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super ... that way. The Radio Society taught me about the various antennae and took

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it's quiet and it smells a little funny. I don't feel very different. If I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  where people can post requests and offers for various types of aid, such ... ’s understandable that there’s a lot on your mind right now, and the last thing we ... of you are still dealing with damage to your homes and schools and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  current and alumni bloggers in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I ... .01 and 6.042 (both intro classes to course 6-3 that I absolutely despised ... that interest me. The report is in after 4 weeks and I absolutely love

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  I was reading Evan's most recent entry and I noticed that he ... awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

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

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  . :-) What can you tell me about next fall's Orientation and Pre ... Center (ARC) and not by Admissions, so I'm not really an expert on those ... .mit.edu/orientation. You'll find various dates and ARC contact information there. What is

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar though. He's been doing it forever and he's amazing. He'll look at files

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  simply curious. And then there are the blank stares - the heavy gazes of ... this orphanage, giving donations, and implementing new programs for ... children had just lost their parents, their homes, and their country. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first ... awesome shop guys (particularly Bill and Tasker). I built my first gearbox and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the conclusion that I want to start eating healthy and keeping track of what I am eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  which have not seen that in a year and a half. The torch of institutional ... buildings and more trees, rebranded restaurants and abandoned stores. The ... school? With that sari-sari store selling overpriced school supplies and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... from last year) and 730 critical reading. But I think that this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008