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• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and ... in the near future. Plus, I can tell you that based on the 7 prefrosh I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  school in a city that is a hub of so much intellectual activity. (And I don ... length, but I will try to truncate myself. Paul Farmer is a doctor and ... I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  actual stage itself, which is always enormous in a way that communicates ... I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a ... news. It was as an editor that he received a letter in the mail. The ... downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  Action and received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied ... I don't have a MyMIT account? If you do not currently have a My ... .mit.edu are intentionally distinct sites. This is to ensure that those who do

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  that area for surveillance. I met them at a VR@MIT event back in February ... Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... donates, they earn a badge that they can display in their email signature

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... culture[/caption] I'm scared to act as weirdly as I normally do in fear of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... Palm Beach, and tomorrow is meeting #3 in South Miami at 11am. A full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... in a STEM field, I could find my place at MIT—I did enjoy learning STEM ... students do a capella and other musical things. I've been to several friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date ... -11-2002) 2002 was published as an illustrated book. A palindrome is a text in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  , where I created a device that separates 99% of the white blood cells in a ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... contributed to MIT in so many ways that I wouldn't know where to begin. So, I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  been interrupted by the pandemic. However, despite this, now that it is summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  entire entry. But I got your attention, right? So, as I reported in my ... consuming large amounts of junk food. Well, that was the plan, and we did in ... couch potato plans earlier in the day when we found out that my aunt was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  'll give you a week from today to mail them in, and I'll post the results ... -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be quite the opposite (except still a whole lot of fun). I've got at least

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  quote I used in my personal blog was "One of my favorite items is a ... When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright ... discourages filesharing." So the Olympics just finished up. I didn't get a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  admissions readers that we can't take a considerably larger number than we do ... decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... see it. That said, there's one in New York in September, and I think ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs ... I attended classes. I don't think it's a coincidence that so many East ... the "weird" people, but more than that, when you're in the midst of a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  honest, it's not like I would have been doing much else back in my dorm ... away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn ... top of that, I”m a news editor for The Tech, which requires me to be

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  . Then that following fall I lived with four people including myself in a ... year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ...  need. Check if there's an in-house washer and dryer, if that is important to you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021