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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  environmental groups are trying to halt plans for more canal expansions because ... Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... 0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Dear Mommy, Today the circus came to school. They

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my ... I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  open to it. It's 11:44 am right now and there are 24 hours and 30 minutes ... 17.5 minutes, and that you're probably too excited to sleep tonight ... ,                                                                                                                                                 Anastassia TED Talks TED talks, for those unfamilar, are "riveting talks by

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  letting her know she had been accepted to the university renowned for its ... to 3.14159, better known as pi, the mathematical symbol for the ratio ... I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on ... hosted a luncheon for the cadets where we heard an incredible war story

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  community. Good luck to those waiting for their college decisions! ... and statistics class for course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). It ... -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  events for all of the newcomers to our building. And while that promise ... love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  inappropriate for me to try and put my sweatpants back on. He wrote back that he ... there for a few more minutes, trying to take notes, with my pants bunched ... (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  . There wasn't much to see in Bedford, except for this old train and a 10 ... for the hourly 62/76 bus to take me back to Alewife. At Alewife, I ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  completely different to what I studied for. In fact, I seriously felt like I ... in Boston (equivalent to the Taiwanese consulate in Boston) for a ... QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... "What if..?" when it came to joining the other sorority. This past spring, I did continuous open recruitment once again for Delta Phi Epsilon and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional ... . All too often students are lauded for being admitted to places like MIT ... else, and that is exactly what happens for students we are unable to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help but worry as I waited for the Admissions Staff to send back their reply ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... sabbatical next semester to write a book, so won't see him around for a while

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read ... greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of ... convened to pick the baby bloggers, who, alongside their more seasoned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... celebratory atmosphere. I made my way from North Station to Kenmore Square

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  to something else without bothering to get credit for it. Right on with ... Scottish band, beating even Franz Ferdinand. Now, you know I don't like to do just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006