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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to say I don’t spend time feeling gratitude; what I mean is that I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front. And what I’ve got is this pretty amazing flowchart my cross-country co

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  inactivity ever since I began this blog. What's been keeping me so busy ... . I can't help but be excited. International selection. Choosing ... -qualified applicants is a daunting task. I'm excited about the choices we've made, while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  , musicians and everything in between. Some are teachers, teaching in schools not far from yours while others are in school as students themselves ... your interview. I say that NOT because I have provided them with a test

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  Before getting too far into this entry, let me just say that I and all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

   grade in the class; if you do poorly you can simply take the class and the
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... language so I could play FF7 in Japanese (aka ultimate weeb goals?? hell yea ... Reckoning. It wasn’t really like that. We spent FOUR HOURS in our committee

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... something very, very satisfying in garnishing soup with plants from your own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... Maneuver Silver Medalists![/caption] I debuted a new free program in ... Tuesday, I performed my short program at my home rink in Revere for an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... is still in its beta stage. If I’m in bed before sunrise, I did well. Now the sun is on the brink of rising. So I must hide in my bed for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  then there was Hall Rush (or In-House Rush...I guess if you're in, say ... Harvey will care that I bled on the 'S'?" I carved out the letters in "East Campus" in the picture below. I also managed to stab myself in the hand

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  , Peru [annotation note="I flew from Santiago, in case anyone was actually ... but somehow I ended up in Russia at a computer vision hackathon. It ... abroad. I was in Pavia, a train ride away from Milan, living with two of my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone ... deep in your bones. You don't choose the Suit. The Suit chooses you. 2 ... around since you're quite literally flying blind in there. This took me

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

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ;    You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you ... in to decisions.mit.edu.   Between Early and Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT, so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  . I can tell you that the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in thousand of miles and an entire country away (in Toronto), I can only send my ... , where every school in the entire county has been closed. San Diego County

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  -shirt that said "In the future, I'm famous." UROP: Morgan Sheng's lab in Course ... Topics in Mammalian Biology) and 9.301 (Neural Plasticity) -- both were ... -- I can go into his office and plop down on a chair and whine about my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  ; Here's the writeup I turned in (click the arrows to scroll through the ... cons of the symbol, and improve on it throughout 3 iterations. I chose the 1E logo (my hall in East Campus). AutoCAD was strongly

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018