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• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... for days. I walked until the Japanese Ghost of Christmas Past walked up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I ... retrospect. There were lots of nice things about it, but the activation energy of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the ... Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most ... MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants. ... Yes! Undocumented and DACA applicants submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... meeting, Russ had the idea of bringing in some MREs, 5000-calorie self

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  of 2.007. This class is like the origin of everything engineering that ... munchkin land, a train that goes to Oz, and a giant Oz head in the middle of ... great blog from Petey that shows more footage of the class! 2

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  a train to a synthetic island off the coast of Tokyo to see a five ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... complete, Japan's variety in chosen tool of sewage disposal truly brings the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist offer) or decline it. For all other students on the waitlist, we ... additional students this year for the Class of 2015. Thanks to all of you on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... each day in front of pretty microscopes and pieces of metal. The other ... , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and ... DID YOU KNOW? The entire state of Wyoming (population 509,300) has ... , as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  the spacing is smaller. If there's a change of a million degrees over a ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and even the average number of hours for each class (based on course ... where I test the limits of how one can graduate from MIT. Perfect for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• 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.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some

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

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard) comes this story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions ... visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you ... us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of ... just the froshies are capable of!). Since we will be cooking then eating

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall ... experience. It’s one of the only first come, first served things, and classes

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is ... dinner a few months ago, Bertucci’s was the obvious choice of venue. It ... variety of engineering disciplines because so many of my classes are in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  'm doing research, the main part of my actual degree. To be honest, so far, I ... signed a job offer two days ago (!), so I guess that means the next year of ... '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022