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• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... ’ve heard, but it’s cold in Boston right now. Like, really cold. Arctic tundra

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  Engine development company, hoping to invest in our own, custom-made comment system. We ... for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... -nighters in a row. I imagined what it would be like to live through stereotyped

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  understanding. That click to go off in my head. Needless to say, it didn't. 8 ... floundered with the Expo marker in some desperate attempt to write something ... downsides to switching to those classes. I look around in lecture and don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  trying to expand our definition of “productivity.” Whereas in previous ... The last time that we blogged about our academics was in June. We had just finished sophomore year, confused about What We Want To Do With Our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  't know how it happens, but everything seems to work out in the end. MIT is ... wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby ... back to my room, then to the kitchen, where people were waiting in the ... . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... . If you still need help after that, feel free to email us at

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to residences. One major component of this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to taste, then snorting said solution up your nose. Fortunately, prior to ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it ... transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed-in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and ... was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science ... Program in Media Arts and Sciences; the Program in Art, Culture, and
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  s, Arrigo Boito, my great-great uncle, was involved heavily in opera. During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... take-away. Earlier this year Eliza asked us to install wireless Internet on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... from my 4th floor room in New House (a dorm with no elevator) to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran ... effective when learning, but it does result in me frantically trying to drag ... sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a ... . But I didn't know how to make these, as my education in engineering ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  ;   Ugly Betty I had no interest in this show but my mom told me to ... So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005