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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  incredible things I've had a chance to do and be a part of - mea culpa, mea ... Charles River. And I can't help but think that it's a beautiful day to bid ... quick exit interview with my professor - and that's it. Done. A beautiful

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i ... Burton-Connor? Come represent your floor in a fast-paced game of "Sex ... -o-lanterns at the Life is good Pumpkin Festival! In addition to jack

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  I used to play Pokemon. I won't lie. One could possibly say that Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across ... decided that she wants to catch them all with her camera this summer; I

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the ... señoritis by Connie H. '15 April 2015 VEDA by Ceri R. '16 Is CPW a lie ... trick yourself into thinking that you're writing a report by Anastassia B

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT ... , check out this video from Vi Hart: (Did you know that Vi Hart is Khan ... 60 Minutes?) What do you think?  Are you sold on Tau?  Or are you a Pi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  -Chairs --- Feel free to drop a comment if you’ll be partaking in these events, I ... students interested in MIT and all the science and engineering that happens ... Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  (personal peeve, I hate writing that is just a continuous block of text) > ... this year!). So, here it is, the official "I want to write a guest entry ... . This year is a bit different. Only three entries will be published, as

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian ... entire campus in a powdered-sugar cast.   It’s incredible how ... , but everyday objects take on a poetic aspect dusted in powdery white. As

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  've blogged a lot about FPOPs in the past. This year's FPOPs include (update 10/27/14: all of these links are dead now that orientation is over, but I ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted[annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the ... this chapter, but, in this moment, I am just so purely happy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... (without logging in!) at my.mit.edu. I know this has been long requested by ... Admissions Emily Roper. Bryn Mawr and Olin are two places I like a lot, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various metrics, meaning I myself had been a bad blogger. I'll spare you the ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math ... summer programs in math & science. Science & Research programs Clark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  for a long, long, time. Thankfully, the real weekend (the one where I ... that they were all even more beautiful in person, especially the cloudy ones, where my iPhone really can't quite hack it. The nature up in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How the World Cup Will Conclude Backed by Science

  

  I like to think of myself as a fortune teller. And since predicting a tournament's outcome is basically telling a fortune, I've decided to tell ... backed World Cup final results below, which are absolutely, in no way

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  species that will allow the bacteria to produce a major intermediate of the ... and that bacteria allow for easier scalability of a process.” Basically, the drug Crixivan ® is used to combat HIV, but it is a very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  question is however, do I celebrate at: A) Toscanini's B) JP Lick's C ... I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use ... . There is a similar link for forgotten usernames. If you're having

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these ... to say it, but it clear to meIt lucky that Moon is not a cookie ...  thrive, wherever you go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal, do things that make you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025