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• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... . It's been a long semester. I had to take four course 16 classes, and I ... laundry, but my room was a mess. I went to class, but I could have and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with ... the second. This shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist ... ? What about financial aid? You're not required to enroll. We'll give you a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  ' stock prices to test a stock's reaction to the event. Other data in this ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14 ... ) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week current material: In a positive (as

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... F. '31 to play in the dirt, and everyone had a great time! A bunch ... the chance to play a role in keeping our family together. **All photos

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  day for residents who wanted to cram in a hot breakfast as well as last ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... the senior thesis Mike Short '05 had to write to get his BS in Course 22 ... significant in either A Prayer for Owen Meany or Donnie Darko. Joe's Dad

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch ... 're all in a bit of shock, and it's going to take a little bit of time for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon challenge? Here are the rules: 1) You have one hour to drink a gallon of milk ... 't have tons of time to do fun stuff. I was digging around on my external

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small ... up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... eventually I'd have to at least meet a few new people. And as orientation week

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  's a great place to study. The reading room in the library is the inside ... in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  needed for future research from several years to less than a week. Jamie ... Theory of Partitions," makes a significant advancement in number theory ... Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this ... assignments all boil down to filling in a few lines of code and pressing “run ... to implement all of this in just a few lines of code. This class doesn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... GIRs. This is usually a good thing. If you don't have so many GIRs to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... . Unbeknownst to me, there was an unopened stick of chap in my coat pocket, a ... morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  city is so congested, living close to a train station will be one of the ... bikes. As someone who lived in Washington, D.C. for a few years, trust me when I say that I’ve been to a place where so many people bike. I have

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy ... the fact that I hadn't gotten in and only checked my account to confirm ... feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011