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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... During my freshman orientation many, many months ago, I came across a girl named Anjali Thakkar: My first thought when I met her was

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  yes, that's my math pset in the background - the math pset that I ought ... essentially live at Hayden Library, one of the few places on campus in which I ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is inexcusable and all of us are beside ourselves in embarassment and frustration. We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  2005), holidays (in 2004, July 4 was the first holiday I took off ... night in spring 2005), and a lot of times in between. I guess I'm a little ... do it -- although I wouldn't really be in favor of taking 7.03 as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  [by Nathan Kipniss '14] This semester I am currently taking STS ... ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn ... shooting outdoor footage from the terrace in Simmons Hall for a practice

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  is designing a skintight spacesuit akin to the one in the movie. I ... Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with ... folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  excited, in fact, that I came home after class last Friday to this lovely ... perfectly: I was booked to be in my Science, Technology, and Society (STS ... the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I ... finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Last week, I used DC's subway/underground train system, called the Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  My friend Brian, Course VI '07, came up with this puzzle. I'll give you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  , parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I ... we're still in late April, I don't have any news for you. I have no ... For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  -on in the MIT community - so much so that I generally find out about ... my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Action is simply a reflection of this. Snively I mentioned in this entry ... , I will scan it in and publish it here. Valentine's Day ...is coming ... Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  skills. :-) And then today, I met with an operations research professor in ... was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with ... difficult. But when I was teaching Probability and Combinatorics in Italy

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  edits in October, the moment had finally come. I was done. But now was a ... colleges. You are not losing yourself in these applications. I'll conclude ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  , because in all honesty, who cares? The answer is no one. [annotation note="I ... A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and an Existential Crisis. It was basically me walking through my career in

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... having fun I'm working my butt off and am probably in various states of ... I've realized that at this point I've pretty much conveyed this type

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005