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• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a classmate about the class of 2019, and we agree that college acceptances have ... reflections): "6. I have a list of all the applicants whose stories really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis ... people, including members of the dispersed MIT community, are struggling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just ... , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2 ... next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents ... or two of these sessions each week). The information session provides

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition is to assume the position of a manufacturing firm that has just been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the ... Wikipedia: The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  the thought of running five miles one morning. I would hope my roommates ... wrists wear out before the rest of my body does, and instead of waking to ... friends I assume everyone thinks I'm weak. I forget why the thought of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... community and beyond. All the sororities are part of MIT Panhel, which is our ... out the waters of sorority life? Come tonight to the first round of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... offered the position. Her mentor, Russell Tedrake, was an MIT Computer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I ... Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you ... respectable sources about college admissions, I descended into the depths of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003 ... differences. She has one of the most elegant writing styles and her stories are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank ... Wellesley College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts College of Art ("MassArt"), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Cross registration is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  the feasibility of traveling to Israel. it said that we should expect to ... State Department travel warning was at level 3, the prospect of travel ... would calm down by mid-May. at the end of April, I had my training weekend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  spent about 3000 hours in the lab over the course of three summers, three ... . He still has to take the GRE and write a statement of purpose and all ... for the rest of eternity, those are totally the two I'd pick, so I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  from run-of-the-mill public schools, people from the middle of nowhere ... all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer calculus, people whose schools didn't offer physics...obviously the people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  tenth grade, I put a similar lamp and mug on the floor of a dorm room ... forgot I owned, followed by the books I had no intention of revisiting. Three categories of books survived the cull: used – but still useful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  terms of planning. spring break officially began on the 18th, but it emotionally started for me on Wednesday the 16th, which was the night of a Tame ... the best concert experiences of my life, second only to the Tame Impala

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... and putting fire engines on the top of buildings, and although all of those are kind of cool, they end up not knowing anything about the fine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006