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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  approached an incoming train, which would, in seconds, be directly in front of ... Requirement (GIR) classes I would be taking, and which of them would be through ... I've been very excited about coming to MIT, and those moments in which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  -- possible replacement chairs! I quickly did what any normal student would do ... smaller than I would like but is the same size as the current desks so it ... faith in the higher-ups to choose the correct chair so I made sure to let

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... (Unnamed applicant #2), I would start by saying that standardized tests are

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  -opening experiences have been things I never imagined I could or would do before as an ... more useful that what I learned in classes. Use the best tools at your ... Orientation has begun. Convocation starts in less than an hour, where

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask ... would like to give me to make it much easier on me? Okay, I'm out of dorky ... people. I actually started writing down things they said in class, because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our ... our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note ... Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading ... Preview Weekend In the fall of 2017, I introduced a new set of brand

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... enterprise… …and then Mr. Spock walked in, hair greyer and ears rounder than I ... Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... intricacies when we approached a couple heading in the opposite direction. I ... . Hello Susan Hockfield. There, I feel a little better now. In other news

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  school year, and I thought it would be interesting to hear their insight as ... more valuable than ever. In the MIT dorms,  you have your friends ... -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... on in the Garden State. I had just finished an article bemoaning the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... , thesis projects), but I also learned about architecture in general ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are ... until I move into Cambridge will quite possibly be the longest in my life ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... would.       Even if you don't know Holly, you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the ... seconds. But I'm glad to have felt such cold up in the Big Rocks, as the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  , suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on ... . I exaggerate, of course. In sandwich terms (what better terms are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  there were seven Apple laptops in the car. I switched to Mac right before ... something that I would not want my mother to read, which is even more awkward ... , since it's such a huge part of your life, so I imagine it would be looked

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because ... media. That response surprised me. I'd been involved in the social media ... . I decided to propose a complementary course, one that would widely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  . Where sometimes, I would solve a homework problem in 18.701: Algebra I ... part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024