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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250 ... article came out in The Tech (MIT's newspaper) with the earth ... exciting and unexpected. Sitting in a row were five different types of chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light ... kids (all of whom moved in on Sunday) has left me no time for the essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  buffalo. There are no buffalo in california as I write this entry though I ... asbestos and lead paint and people aren't allowed in it. The pedestrian in this picture is me. Sad little me, always walking everywhere

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... there was a giant blizzard in Cambridge, MA, which delayed the shipping of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... navigate the 77 Mass Ave construction in their cars? So, first of all, every ... just numbers. If there's a letter in front of your building number, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... participated in it last summer. If I have forgotten any, please let me know ... Fellowships have a competitive advantage in the selection process sample issues

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  registered for MyMIT and live in the US, you should receive your application by ... people apply these days -- it should be online in early August ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... . Germany is playing against Ecuador in the World Cup at 4 PM, so Dr. Kau ... left (in that respect, it was like most of my MIT problem sets last term

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... performance in audio and retrieve to us what you learn about Germany? It's just I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany ... to college in Boston, like heading to Wellesley or running the Boston Marathon or checking out the MFA. In fact, the only reason I even planned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the ... has been on campus for five years. Schools that have been in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  me offhand her impressions of the graduate student culture in her ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  in front of you in 3.091 lecture was up all night rigging up clever ... questions in a separate entry. Read it all here. Number 2: If you haven ... hang in there and remember that it's not the end of the world. And now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... Pollack, pasta with Gorgonzola cheese and apples, swordfish, pears in wine

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005