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• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on ... hawking upcoming events on campus. No way could I have done it justice, at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis ... break it, though; he'll be working with a software engineer whose ... leader of the tech world is pretty impressive. Perhaps it's not entirely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  -month period, unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery ceremony. How did this all start?The history of the Massachusetts Institute ... ," but its colloquial name is far more well known���the "Brass Rat." The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  an idea of how behind on email I am right now). He wrote, "The male ... ...for instance, maybe chronicle the "life" of a single (anonymous) application, its ... curious." Soon, very soon. Marybeth wrote, "Does MIT look at any older

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  . It doesn't take long for our heartbeats to naturally fall into sync ... document. Looking back at my journal, it’s filled with all kinds of notes ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  analysis for two labs. It's going to be a long day. And to ensure I can ... It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride ... undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  history of Illuminations and how we hope it will serve our visitors ... included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... should be very soon, at which point I will blog very loudly about it (hint

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  learned how small of a world it really is, I also learned that to learn what ... , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... transportation, cities and how they intersect to impact individual’s quality of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : "I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t hurt, but I will tell you that you’re strong enough to get over it, however long it takes." If you ... , shake it off, and get back up again. Remember that you will survive — and

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... as an independent inquiry, but later got mentorship for it through MIT ... single most impactful academic experience in high school, so it informed a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  Engineering Research Group. It wasn’t hard to find people to help out. We ... always like amazing people, like Will, who is highly creative, does ... were taken, he asked, as he generally does, if I could use a few tickets

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  how they're studying aviation and what games they're into right now. It ... websites for Airbnb and Kopa. Well, it's not like we had any better leads, and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  . "Oh my god, hey! I haven't seen you in so long. How are you?" High ... the point where it numbs my mouth. Or that the strange hierarchy that ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  remembered what it really meant and how we all have done it. We all pulled a ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it ... part of my major, and after this it gets a lot better.  I really do feel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... ’t sound like a big deal? Oh, it is. Many distance runners around the nation long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  all come and how long we have been at the institute. Before coming to ... successfully making it through what is undoubtedly some of the hardest four years ... China, but it slowly starting to hit me that this year is the ‘easy’ year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  your research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the ... ! The next blog will feature even more winter teams, so stay tuned :) How ... and it makes coming to practice each day something I look forward to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Hi! Remember me? It’s only been 14 years since my last MIT Admissions ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025