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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It's not Tennyson or anything, but... Oh MIT, OH MIT Many are the reasons ... classes and why we push ourselves so hard, Or to sigh as we decipher dusty

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  about, or if we would be able to hold a conversation,” petey writes in the ... truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... CHEST.  i wanted to leave everything, including myself, behind. in junior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  available online in addition to the standard postal mailing. We expect to ... 2006. You applied in Regular Action, or were deferred in Early Action (the system is unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... you, you may, in the short run, have your teacher or guidance counselor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... sessions, each around four to five hours. it was a lot of dnd in a short time ... how we managed to fit three people in my single room. they stayed for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  , until this summer when I officially moved to live in a hotel (aka Maseeh ... building a fort out of pillows, a rollercoaster, or room decorations. In high ... you in high school who want a taste of MIT culture from home and to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  , with airholes poked in the end to keep it soft. These guys were moving ... fraternity or sorority, but without a national organization. pika used to be a ... or half meal plans for a sum of money and agreement to cook or clean

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  ’d applied to (and really wanted to go to) were in Boston, or on the East coast ... other universities aren’t necessarily in cities or around many other ... universities in the area added to that experience even more. Not to mention, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  three years of this stuff, I should be entitled to a month or two of just not caring whether or not you decide to do Terrascope or a freshman ... temped in New House, and after REX I moved to Senior Haus, which I love so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... cannot change it. Do you really want to answer to "hotdog88" in three years ... handbooks that included tips on what to pick or what not to pick. Since

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don't like writing or will stop ... static images. And Lydia may or may not have suggested that I try to vlog ... -of-summer optimism), or at least stick to it as best as possible! (Also I swear that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... members who must apply to their departments in order to lecture, and the ... subject exceedingly well. In preparation for these supervisions, you are to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... objects, or click and drag starting from a blank section of your page to ... lets you specify whether you want the line to be dashed and/or add

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... , chose to do difficult homework, chose to not go to parties. In these ways, "MIT is only as hard as you want it to be" was true. In other ways, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  much about MIT, but my job is to, in 30 or 60 or 90 minutes, encapsulate ... announced to the crowd that the score was 2-0 in the second inning. That part ... , was not true. To make matters worse, during the reception afterwards in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  three times over in case it spontaneously combusts or lawn-darts into the ... We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  period than if you were to pursue them separately or elsewhere. But it ... 's all about how you want to structure things. In DUSP, there are four specialization areas or groups, and students tend to pick an advisor and "affiliate

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... vacation, be it out of state or somewhere else that's in or out of town.   Head to the beach.   Get tan! (Or get a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011