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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch ... 's the main engineering library) looks very cool, though weird for a ... certainly cannot substitute for the real experience of being on MIT's campus

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  bought a Coke, and I asked for ice. Armed with the skate, and the ice, we ... friends and left Boston for the summer. I hear that Daniel borrowed a friend ... years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... of the world's foremost experts on general relativity, as well as a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  to watch the movie! As for the movie itself, I sobbed like a little ... this movie for the first time with his parents felt like a turning point ... point in my life for...something. In the Q&A after the screening

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof ... place for three consecutive years. This year, the winning team consisted ... Mathematical Association of America (MAA)--the organization responsible for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  the day. And also, for more on July 4, check out Matt's Blog. Videos ... names, and in the true spirit of MIT, a friend said: Friend: If I had a ... (and maybe a little text here and there) So pretty much July 4th was

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• 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.

  

  stopped for the local rice noodles (米线) at a little restaurant only to ... they negotiated a cab for me while I (the foreigner, a tempting target on ... trips were for Chinese language (funded by the always-generous Global

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  finalists for the contest, which meant a free trip to California to present ... This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... send a text message to invite friends or post to the user’s Twitter

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... I win. So I apologize for having disappeared (somewhat) off the ... travelled all around the island, generally visiting friends, and also took a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for the science, there are still a lot of critiques on the Big 5 or five ... lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  Maxwell '13, a Course VI major and iPhone Developer. The short URL for the ... spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend, including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  any topic*. Take poverty, for instance- a perfunctory search on the Tech ... commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions ... to print out a resume and go to one of the orientation meetings for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  as well. I'm back at the tΞp work bench looking for a bigger flathead ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  tΞp resides in a beautiful hundred year old brownstone that overlooks the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  , wrote an article called “The People We Have Been Waiting For.” In it, he ... launch the Vehicle Design Summit — a global, open-source, collaborative ... equivalency or better.” The Linux of cars! They’re not waiting for G.M. Their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  that for every point in the set, there is a ball around that point that ... program the logic for your circuit directly in C. We finished with a project ... explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  , and drive home for the evening. Overall, a great day. Tiring, but fun ... back home, make sure I'm all packed, and call a cab for the airport. I ... for the Texas Gulf Coast, so I'm a bit anxious, having never been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still ... application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must fill out the entire MIT ... If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  be my home for a few more months. Considering this, stopping at the ... I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016