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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases ... week left before I need to leave for MIT, I'll probably start shopping ... sure to share with you, my faithful readers. (For those incoming frosh

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  wanted to work on for 2.75--we’ll develop each project idea into a ... I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... bloggers to introduce! Staff and senior bloggers read our way through sixty-two applications, went back and forth for hours, wished we could hire just a few more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  bus to Rochester, NY for the first round of the NCAA tournament. If you ... ’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE ... Are all important for us When we build cool things. 17.395: Innovation

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet ... - House of Poo Poo it was. Welcome to House of Poo Poo, aka Toilet Special

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  their performance to convey emotion and meaning (which holds true for the ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our ... arts. It was really cool to see so many different aspects to Black

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  is startled. I'm sure. But I'm going to do it anyways. I've lost the element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... corner of their heart a little bit from time to time, well, here's my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  and trudged to the BPL (Boston Public Library) for the John Adams ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  to be an actual adult for the night (I turn twenty next week. Yikes ... string he'd been hiding away for that moment and proceeded to spray me ... You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  for the Straight Guy." Yes, tonight (Tuesday, June 20) at 10 p.m., Ed ... Science and Physics at MIT. After graduation, he took his skills to Microsoft, but has since moved to Las Vegas, where he became a professional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason ... UROP this summer, two of which were federal holidays) -- we decided to ... , and our friend Mark, who used to live in our suite and now just lives on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  ready to vie for the number one spot. Next Tuesday's lessons will be about ... mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT. Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  the amusement park next door for free, get to stay outside all day and ... there who really, really wish they knew how to do the things you take for ... am here, ready and willing to be the poster child for "people who get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  programs for a reason: to broaden the students’ horizon, develop our life ... many additions I have made to my vocabulary since I commenced my study at ... of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , it's because I woke up . . . to go study. Finals are coming up! You see ... , that gives me 1.5 more days to learn everything. The good part? I think I'm almost there. I actually think I'll be ready for Monday *crosses fingers

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  patient). Formally known as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no ... class from the Admissions Office to the Academic Resource Center (ARC ... ? A cover letter from Marilee, formally transitioning you to the ARC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  , music, or art, at least as far as I've seen to date. For those of you who ... one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some ... asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004