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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... Cape Cod -- or so I hear, I've never been; ask me in a week =) Coolidge ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  volunteer learned that he or she was to role-play as the Director of FEMA in ... of things we’d like to see happen in “our” ELL: bigger groups, greater ... Director was told to organize his or her classmates into a shelter team, an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  case you want to read or hear it for yourself in words besides only the ... I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... of words around to make other words[/annotation], or [annotation note

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the MIT ... they need to go to their waitlist or not, and if so, how many students ... "yield"), we admitted 1474 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... seminar will be required to actively participate in class discussion and to ... required to participate in the seminar. Both men and women are welcome and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• 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…

  

  as a research assistant in the US or to travel to Mexico and develop ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can ... functions. There was no way to sort or filter the contents aside from doing so ... (table, list, calendar, kanban board, or gallery) without needing to copy

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  specific songs define the distances in my life? A walk from East Campus to Simmons was equal to 3-4 Regina Spektor Songs, 2-3 Deadmau5 Songs, or 1/2 of ... Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously ... make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or ... "? In my work with the lab, I go to preschools and the children's section

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I'll finish up this entry when I'm safely and comfortably back in room 224C ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  , or FR) NEVER TAKE THIS SEAT. I promise you the person in front of you ... , or FR) This is the seat you'll probably get if you check in late and it ... either have an easy exit in the aisle seat or a beautiful view from the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  get in. (Or maybe it's really just to contain the diseases found there ... nose is running, or your leg's going to fall off, don't expect any ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  undoubtedly heading to the library to cram for finals - people who in any other ... own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I ... 've seen in friends and mentors here in response to the tragedy, reflective

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  "]Grant,⁠ or someone from our admissions team,[/annotation]⁠ will be there to ... and jujutsu sorcery. Or, you can play Celeste and pay your respects to ... 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision through the ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... information: Students can request an extension of the May 1 deadline in order to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008