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• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... three blankets on the floor. A few weeks ago, I had to choose whether to order a bed from Amazon, IKEA, or Wayfair; I ended up deciding to get an

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... .022 test!” Not one to back down from a challenge, I enthusiastically insist ... say that I have a plan to make sure that I will be Perfectly Fine in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... arms stretched, to welcome you into a new and exciting world. --- Katie

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... vertigo I've had checked out. The last time I've been to a physician of any ... feeling okay, I said. We scheduled our next appointment to happen after a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  ="83921" /] Here's a sign for Swapfest. From April to October, hundreds of Swapfest ... , as opposed to a variable-width font."]monospaced[/annotation] font is ... Myriad, rather than Segoe, due to the lowercase A and R. I think they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut ... sort. But if you're going to Portland for a day, forget all that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... work on a tuesday to bash my head on the same bug i've been bashing my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay. Instead, we ask our applicants to provide short (100-250 word) answers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES ... breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared ... blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  , it will potentially involve re-programming a WiiMote. To that end, my coworker sent me some links to a project that his friend had worked on, which ... Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• 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 ... quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... are psyched about airplanes." I felt really glad to be a part of Course ... to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , we have a peaceful dawn and an idyllic sundown, yet they seem to mostly ... the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... in the town. Newport is a lovely town and it was definitely not made to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall ... virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... dorm cooking is comparable to a three-Michelin-starred restaurant. With

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  some cpw events i’ll be at

  

  planning? Come stop by to find out! A few current students studying urban ...   (Department of Urban Studies and Planning) undergrads to go on a sunset walk ... [annotation note="Campus Preview Weekend, MIT admits are invited to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push ... . It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a ... remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow). We'll be doing more travel together as a group to meet with prospective ... contact with us. Drop us a note to the waitlist email address. Keep us up to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011