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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  software - and how these programs can be improved in the future. After the ... in the relief effort. What I found most striking was that the current ... 't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  theater arts classes and performance groups. Students can participate in ... immersed in arts courses or the creative community. Students of any major can ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  realities of college. I will contemplate the practice in the end, and a color ... my hall, and I expect to be detained by people. In the evenings, they ... irresistible, and normally I give in to temptation. After a day of important

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  , and your safety. You will not be penalized in the application process ... possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at ... email us. You can always apply Regular Action (RA), too. You don’t get

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

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the ... : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived ... Educational Council office know at [email protected] and we can connect you with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  interminably for the bus, wrapped beseechingly in our coats. As I silently wept ... unusability of this MoMA interface, which I can't resist snarkily paraphrasing ... While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  but stressful, oftentimes [annotation note="i ran speedtest.net in my ... advance them at a snail's pace. i made a point last fall in only bringing ... pad and acoustic guitar, though i've kind of fallen in love with the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... beanbag in the sun :( we hate sun it burns[/caption] 4. banana lounge is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  If you've haven't yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus First East Disco Dance Floor, then what are you waiting for? First, go to the website Then read the News Office article Finally, watch the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in renewable energy. Wants to: Get a good-paying job so he can afford ... venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laptop There should be a special place in hell for laptop thieves.

  

  has been thusfar unhelpful as usual in locating the perpetrators. These entries might take a lot longer than I thought. Gotta start over. Good thing I already turned in my thesis.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  . Aside from that, I still live at ZBT as the resident advisor (GRT in ... classes in 2003 (3.091, 21A.109, 18.01A, 8.01 and a seminar). I don't know ... a class in every department so that's kind of cool. When I first

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interview required? No, it's not required, but I highly suggest having one ... would fit at MIT - something the paper application alone can never match ... ? Your interviewer will live/work nearby, so you'll interview in your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts ... 'll provide advice and tips wherever we can. Money and financial aid will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I ... ) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit.edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept ... 'd paint you a walk along the river, in this nimbly crafted post; I'd tell you how I love this place, about its gentle paradise, all in prose that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  , scientific discovery, humanism, etc... When I discovered this dichotomy in ... and put down this stroke for all that you will do! But I have noticed in ... In his most famous book, James Carse categorizes human activity into

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... Admissions Office. I had an office and my name was painted on the door but in ... didn’t live in a dormitory last year like the rest of the freshmen but I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... it since we had turned in our apps. (When I was YOUR age, we didn ... thinking she hadn't gotten in. So I did the same thing - after I came home

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006