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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  just pushed out so much work to get the website ready for the launch. We ... are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you ... three of us were working on getting the website and applications up. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn ... everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a ... this thing in Chris's entry that I'm going to shamelessly plug this pen

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There is no online application for MIT transfer. To apply, you should print

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  interviews that ranged from the inane to the interrogative (often in the same ... of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  to the Admissions website, and were going to feature staff and student ... wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  'm very excited to get my own copy of this ring in April. It might just be a ... this information off the website. So if you want to know more, you should ... , though, is because I won the raffle :0 I guess as an incentive to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... wanted to do lab research for the longest time, but after getting a UROP in ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home ... that they were trying to get people to think about and get involved in ... if I wanted to get dressed up or not, and finally gave in to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... House Fenway is home to 20 MIT students (and cats) in Boston's Back Bay

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... ...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source ... who had begun to specialize in different subtopics. At the end, these

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  ’t even find the energy to think that getting out of bed in the morning is ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... 's happened to you in the last five-and-a-half weeks you'll recognise this as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... 't include me in their follow forever. in a way, it was comforting to just read ... getting rejected from my top job choice and so i felt a strong urge to bury

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... every premed in the world would give his or her right cerebral cortex to ... getting an efficiency apartment in one of the family residences on campus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  root for Team 9 (also known as Team Awesome). We're in it to win it! Our ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody ... "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... sure to get our feedback for our weekly quizzes, too. I was really just ... loved this class so so much and wanted to ~ memorialize it ~ in some kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... to get the creative juices flowing, and in the real world it's really ... use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006