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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more ... I sports; we are the birthplace of intercollegiate sailing; and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  Fabolous from his songs such as "I Can't Deny It" and "Breathe," and you may ... One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  dorm I stayed in took me on a tour of the dorm, and by the time we ... some cans in it, and I politely asked, "Is the pop in there for everybody ... in the middle of a term when I was taking 60 units, b) it covered

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

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  in the future. I am spending the summer in Bend, OR, a small city of ... cross-country adventure. I’ve taken plenty of road trips in my time, but ... of ads looking for long-term roommates (I have places to be in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... heavily invested during soccer matches; it’s a fact. I can barely stay still

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  Potter earrings,” said my little sister.  In truth, I’d thought of zero of these things. I simply had some copper plate and a bandsaw in front of me ... paperbacks in the 1970’s. As a cross country runner, I have poured hours of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  This year the city of Boston turns 375 years old (that makes Boston ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... giving away free Vitamin Water (I've recently become a big fan of Vitamin

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in ... pleased, resulting in an ever-changing amalgam of graffiti, text, and images

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... proportions of aquaporins in a cell are   2:41 am: today I learned that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  them mail them to people they knew outside the city. I was, of course ... mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit ... fact: His office doors are covered in pictures of his former students and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I think that I've done an okay, if not great, job taking advantage of IAP ... that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... Hospital in Springfield, a nearby city in Massachusetts. I had always been

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF. The table at dinner. In ... , I got to visit many of the finalists and their projects. Anneke '10 at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few ... .5 years of our lives and relationship in there. Although I'm really excited ... because of the pandemic. I never would have started running, or lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... slides can legitimately remind you of the day you discovered Paint in ... On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 hours, 4 major cities, and over 4,000 miles of amazingly exhausting travel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006