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• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  Back in the fall, I wasn't really sure if I made the right choice ... really weird when you get home in the evening. Close the door – I live in ... ziplock bag. Back in my room, I put one card on a shelf near my radiator. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... technological initiatives than I ever did in class. They really opened up my mind ... TEDxCambridge 2013 official photos page. Psst: I'm in 3 of these

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... travel season, we'll prepare to read your applications. I suspect we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  up with decisions; apologies in advance!] Okay, it's 11pm and I haven ... I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I ... ." This is part of why I love MIT - people here actually appreciate this kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding ... 't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but a forthcoming software patch should (hopefully) fix that. I think the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT ... Cormick. This is my room just after I moved in. It doesn’t really look like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about ... -programming. Behold in Awesome Wonderment the pace from which I execute MIT Admissions ... staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I've even worn a tie (*gasp*) for the occasion! I'm excited but also nervous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... . That I always end up contemplating what went wrong in the past few ... I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all ... alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these ... the various paraphernelia I was going to smuggle into graduation in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don ... good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a stalker, promise!) I’m writing about birthdays because this weekend I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never ... see it. That said, there's one in New York in September, and I think ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I find my weekly/fortnightly blogs slowly phasing themselves out. As such I thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR podcast Pop Culture

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... Conner in the Class of 2024 Discord. Most of the questions I got about BC ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... 't know if MIT has a wind tunnel, but if they do, I want to put bikes in ... . I'll have my first bike in the Tour de France this year." Read more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of ... . I am still Tarnished but no longer maidenless. Meanwhile, in Ceri I ... I continually upgrade my skills and abilities. In this CMS thesis, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024