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• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  that come and go but are united in their values, and so on. I know that ... someone wearing a Bomber shirt ten years in the future who I don't vibe with ... out multiple times in the past, I know I'd do the same for any future

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A ... Class of 2020, we enclosed the following note in the tube:   ... for the pictures)  I strongly suspect the Class of 2020 is trying to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  , learn about their lives, fall in love with many, but can only choose a few ... ...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to see the applications roll in. Students enter into the application

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  people who can communicate in a compelling fashion to our large and active ... blogging for us, we are primarily interested in people who can tell stories ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  , climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by [The Void] I ... broadcast live! Electronic participatory art; engage in the creative process. Follow @NouveauRealisme ! If you’re in Boston, come to Killian Court

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  registration easy, we can significantly increase engagement in upcoming local ... several nonpartisan ways we can work to make that happen.     I ... tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... , especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... spite of that, you've still achieved in many ways. That's why I suggested ... Even in classical mechanics, physics tells us about relativity, where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  in which everyone can thrive and succeed. From what I have seen of ... should I take or activities should I be involved in? There is no one answer ... and recommendations highlighted in the Turning the Tide report, and I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ] (which makes sense if you think about it). In my excitement, I gripped ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... what I'm going to do without her next year. It's sortof like in the ... 'm still here in 18 years when she finishes her dissertation, you can bet

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important ... us in addition to the many activities they're planning for Campus Preview Weekend in April. We brainstormed, made charts and graphs, and after

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  operated Wallace Observatory in Westford, MA. Once at the observatory, they studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... I also am crossposting, called Calculating the Future of Writing in ... 's experts in the field, and wanted to share them on our blogs since I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  possibly can and we're just about ready. Right now, we're all getting our prefrosh assigned to us, as you can see below: 1,100 of you are coming and ... -Conner and say hi, I'll likely be involved with most of the events we host but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to expect? You can read some guest entries (including mine!) from the current ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the mixture because I had just finished working with yeast in the lab ... so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013