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• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  the Esplanade, to a jetty: a piece of wood that sticks out into the Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one ... I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  by a woman, to represent 2007's even gender ratio. To prevent such ... found it a little upsetting, since most people's objection to the woman ... to Boston and the outside world. Behind the bridge, a boat representing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... .g. "what a function looks like”) and the psets require the students to, say ... that? We've also had to program hangman and Scrabble. Making a working

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... building, all are a little different than your ordinary structure. While some ... , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... a brief break from committee to attend a live webcast and discussion ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been a bit more than two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline ... . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... admit I'm a bit sentimental about this particular commencement. The Class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was ... , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... , MIT has cancelled classes today, and is urging employees to stay home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  and emails, and loaded everything into our system. If you are a prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... received a direct message from him. If you have missing components - relax

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  It's a stressful time. Finals are starting, decisions are coming out ... could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness ... probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels ... have felt that way at times, like there is a horror trying to claw its

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... a lifetime ago: when I was applying to schools, there was a school ... had a feeling I was going to get rejected and I didn't want to give them

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture ... offense to the 10-250 chairs, they're a nice purple shade but they just aren ... with the AWESOME AMAZING HUGE desk it sports. The desk is mounted to a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  are good photographs. I was going to leave the party and go out with a ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity ... after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005