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• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  established at the Institute in 29 years. MIT is the first university in the ... student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch, I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  had a nice dinner with Joe DiLiberto, the regional EC chair for central ... . Wednesday morning found me driving to Hackensack for the Northern NJ school ... road that is somehow both Route 1 and Route 9 at the same time? I think

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... —preemptively, at that—is nothing but painful. The seniors got to experience four ... impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  experience that I am very thankful for. Then, there is the group of friends that I will refer to as Team Awesome. This is the catch-all for the ... for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  the ROTC program - for many students, this is a great way to make MIT ... for science courses or are they thought to be there to fill seats in the ... think the graduation rates for men and women at MIT are very similar. And

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT ... ...wait for it... A YOYO THAT DOUBLES AS HEADPHONES, so that is what we did ... Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  you which one the lie is. Two Truths and a Lie ... , and Spiderman 2 Favorite Reality TV Show: Beauty and the Geek, for ... surrounding areas, I hope you all get an idea of what the community and life is

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  class. The first test was altogether not that bad for me. However, it ... , that was the last test; all in all, it went fairly well, and is certainly ... is not the story of this blogpost. The story of this blogpost can be

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... interview. If you are applying for the November 1 Early Action (EA) deadline ... applying for the January 1 Regular Action (RA) deadline, you should set up

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  of dreadful. Doing them in the absence of that I-can-I-will-this-is-what-I-came-here-for ... ’ve written in the past few weeks are stories for my writing class—which is ... forever as usual and was due on Thursday--and studying for the only 6

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute. Since the blogs were mostly focused on decisions, I figured I'd follow up a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  (wonderfully blogged last year by Michael) is tonight. ‘Tis the season for ... school who also ended up on the East Coast for university, see Big Fish and ... college is the independence you acquire once you move away from home. And

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... have asked whether 8.962 [General Relativity] is appropriate for them. I have never taught it before, so the most honest answer is "I don't know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  think is the perfect name for the event) was to be held on Sunday ... Brass Rat is that it marries you to the Institute. I loved all of the ... to putting on my Brass Rat for in-person events. In the spring, I lost

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  competition, running a Book Exchange for students at the beginning of the ... , Friendship, and Service. The Leadership part is fairly obvious, since people ... service projects well. And the Service is central to the organization. But

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli ... think is) the biggest decisions in your life. Perhaps you are choosing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is ... . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even ... woman is that all the chairs in the microscope room in my lab are too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  . Brewster Kahle is the MIT-educated former entrepreneur who began building the library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... Archive, which is a nonprofit. [...] The Internet Archive also sponsors a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  for the rest of my life. My relationship with poetry is ever ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... by a musician is that the poems turn out quite pretty. The cool thing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020