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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed-in... Butbutbut - a few days later, sledding! Pulling that sled up the hill many ... , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school ... India, figured out how to do a stopover on the way for a friend’s recital

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  instance, my supervisor has developed a computer model for predicting the ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... talk sessions all running concurrently. Part of the schedule for last

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  College Confidential for a sign that I had a chance. The college manuals ... will all crowd in the kitchen for waffles and a good time, and I cannot ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  ! As you can see, it is a really exciting time of year for the denizens ... working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a ... . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  patient). Formally known as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no ... ? A cover letter from Marilee, formally transitioning you to the ARC ... final coursework and grades. Information from the ARC. A letter about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a ... cycle using our application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must fill out the entire MIT first-year application.
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  forget for a few days, the bottle may explode. Not the biggest deal but ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important changes for most people is the task of cooking meals. With LaVerde's open

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  ? What's the procedure for declaring a department, and are students locked ... on a poster which was presented at the Society for Neuroscience ... Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  Update (11/19/06; 2:08 PM) The cultural reference for that symbol goes back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Learn from my Mistake Aesop's Fables forgot one.

  

  Rule #1: Write legibly. Background: I wrote on a pad of paper that I scheduled my GREs for October 27, or that's what I read. Turns out my 27 actually was a 21. That was my rockstar move for the day. See you Saturday!

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  parts of myself for a while i thought the way to go about this was to ... they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... of improving the world and used that as one of the primary criteria for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to BLACKPINK with my other sister // clowned for, anticipated and saw the 1989 ... it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  and asks me if i have determined the correct final velocity for a dust ... preparations for next act, the large expanse is occupied by a set of black ... premises undetected and without any trouble as agent june opened the door for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  , and then picks a subset of those to review for the final examination. As ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... superior culture for learning. These three branches are the colleges, which

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  have to sign up for Glass Lab offerings through a lottery. The lucky ones ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... from PE class, for the blogs. Below are 29 photographs, with captions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the two: fight (by studying hard for two weeks), then flight (home for the holidays!) Many students will come back to MIT around January 7 for ... participate in the January Scholars in France program, an incredible program for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007