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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  't-slept-for-31-hours state*: "power out. naptime." *Last night. Was. Not. Fun. But ... universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  UROP. We are drafting submissions to the United Nation's Universal ... this song. So even though I was born in the United States, I've never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  -minded view that most of the things in my life were "just normal" or universal ... ! (And just in time, right?) After my previous state of confusion, this is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  EMT state exam, which I took after having taken a month-long eight ... much of something that really matters out into the universe without

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... your name will look like on the degree, but...let's not jinx this, okay

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... -degree sauna into a 36-degree river. So, I hope you don't mind me writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 14% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 19% Abroad 10% States represented 49 Countries represented 49 Schooling: Public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to ... lengths weren’t perfectly accurate, our angle wasn’t perfectly 90 degrees. A small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  course catalog that some departments (like 10 and 22) offer a joint BS and ... want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... 're sure you want that masters degree, I think a five-year program is a super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  closer to the universe, and the universe closer to me. About halfway ... that may not involve a graduate degree in physics. In the past, many

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... . Someone offered me juice made with dried peaches, which has a special name

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly ... :1s, and I talk to many other people - interns, the University program reps, managers, MIT alums! - as well on a regular basis. The University

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  into great universities, but ended up attending local community colleges ... universities thought otherwise and calculated unrealistically high expected ... things MIT students do to afford college. Does MIT offer sholarships to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  ; Plains States 13% South/Southwest 8% West Coast 18% Abroad 13% States ... Least distance traveled: Cambridge, MA The only two US states not represented: Montana and New Mexico The most represented US state: California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each application is evaluated within its unique context. No school, state, or regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  more detached to reach the state i am at now, where i feel comfortable ... media because you’ve never used it are extremely different states of being ... different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... don't like to sit still. So, about a month after my return to the States ... around the southwestern states as you learn to fly. So, I flew over the

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008