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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  accelerator. This accelerator is to be used to detect fissile material, in hopes ... fissile material used to make nuclear weapons. My part in this is to ... (up in the Himalayas). I'll be there for a month, working to fight the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... and families in order to get a better education, so that my siblings and ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... ="If you live in a dorm with a dining hall, you are required to pay for a ... the option to pay for a meal plan, but are not required."]meal plans/in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  performances, or to write lyrics that use Boo as a pronoun.) Do not use words ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never ... giggles. Do not quote Holden Caufield in your essay. (It's a good way to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  and AI as they are in their own disciplines — and ready to use these ... time to educate a new generation of technologists in the public interest ... structure will allow interested students to gain a strong background in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  out. I considered leaving, but didn't want to seem like a wimp. In any ... , coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... , acknowledging that I wouldn't be able to attend that morning; Ashley has a rule

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  convictions yet open to suggestions. Bend like a reed in the wind. If not, you ... is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind ... . As you can see, your GC has a very important role in the College

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  using a straight line, there’s only one way to do it. So we say that two ... , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in ... everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... lecture halls, and serenading each other in deserted stadiums, to name a few ... could not imagine a better community to grow in.  But hey — even if you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  cone next to the felled fire hydrant, like a battlefield cross. Rest in ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until ... . I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still haven

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don ... it occurs to me that Dentist and Nurse are probably involved in some

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ingredient in healing. I have always had a gut feeling that the whole closure ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  exploring a visual, and then using data collected in this manner to train a ... to run a really controlled experiment to see if small changes in a ... collecting a list of 22 adjectives that could be used to describe a trend or a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  being said, if you can find it within you to do so, please vote for me. A ... entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  ’t even remotely want to sleep – although a number of people in my row dozed ... in love with a beautiful girl, Rosina. However, he wants her to love ... Wagner was many years ago, in a summer novel: an elegant, cultured but

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  ://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you ... in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions will be available

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010