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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk ... playing this game in elementary school on those good ol' 3.5" floppy disks, but I did =) Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the event, BUT

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to sites like Quora, College Confidential, and /r/ApplyingToCollege.         A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever ... want to major in** Eat liquid nitrogen ice cream High-five Tim the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing ... .) (Thanks to Christina for finding the picture for me.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  At MIT, we hope to get to know you better through the application process and want you to be able to express yourself authentically. We understand that some information you may choose to share with us is information
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he ... graduation, Riess chose to attend MIT, where he majored in Physics (Course 8 ... addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how you can get to know MIT better are these very blogs. Actually, Blogger Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... to advance to the semifinal of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the ... to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur and purchase solar cookers ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  in German has helped me to speak German more freely. As a tutor and ... determining when students don't understand. Reluctant to speak in a language ... helped me to develop confidence in my own skills and knowledge, and it has

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.

  

  2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream...

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ZigZag Episode 8 A new video podcast episode.

  

  Episode 8 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now; I serve as host for this episode. My favorite part was getting to interview the "red jackets," MIT's 50 year reunion class: the Class of 1956. Check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... actually visual representations of me while working in a team to attempt to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into ... sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process Final Presentation. Everything you need to know lives on this site ... !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... moving to the west coast in about six weeks to start as an adjunct lecturer ... and fly one of every ship in Wookieepedia. Step one, obviously, is to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  innovation studied in relation to the history of philosophy as well as more ... as well as literature studied in relation to their making of myths ... expect to write frequently, to give and receive response to work in

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Restaurant & Bakery in Miami. After Miami, it was off to Florida's Gulf Coast, where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... overnight with an MIT student, go to classes, eat in the dining halls, etc. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  1. Reply to random email asking for Tim volunteers. As soon as it ... wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it deep in your bones. You don't choose the Suit. The Suit chooses you. 2

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  . I dressed up and went to see W in a theater with my boyfriend and we ... A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008