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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only ... in LMP (Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity) right now, trying to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the Preview PDF (I'm applying online). Is it ok for me to write more and and ... out for it for you. But statistically, I'm likely to not be one of your

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  week-long program for sophomores during IAP, however, since I trained to ... a limited amount of money to buy a limited amount of materials.  The ... were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  I’ve been doing more reading recently, so wanted to share! “Detail ... experience, reading it online, but still. An absolutely stunning, incisive ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  hometown area. There's no need to bike/fly/hitchhike to Boston for your ... , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning

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

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  town for the ceremonies, turned to me with their eyebrows raised six ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a ... , telling me to go for a seminar rather than traditional, with an adviser that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  their website: http://w1mx.mit.edu. And thanks for listening ... Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  used some of our wing budget to buy three more of them. they are very ... managers for the show which meant she also had to be at the lighting booth for a couple of the showings but we got to watch it together on opening

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  upperclassmen scrambling to finish their quantum problem sets also provided for ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally ... should personally thank Anthony for that. I guess I should have expected as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  academically and personally. You are the best of the best. I wish we had enough room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a ... Well, you heard it here first. The letters are in the mail. For the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  CourseWare']OCW[/annotation] to prepare for my [annotation note='Single Variable Calculus']18 ... warmly accompanied me as I waited for everyone to come back. I would bump ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  completed online; you may request evaluations through the Recommendations ... the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to submit their
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat ... was willing to shell out for it. After all, when you look at that Brass

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  single buyer in Italy responsible for supplying energy to retail consumers who are not eligible for competitive supply, asked NERA to assist in the ... to evaluate the feasibility of various economic instruments for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... student and person she is. It occurred to me that we admissions officers ... down to the fact that we don't have room for every excellent student who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... , so try not to compare.  Start by saving a few months of expenses for ... impacts endure – but for some reason the world wants to move on and forget

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  the secrets to being WIDE.  Anyway, that’s beside the point for now ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014