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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , but we couldn't see exactly how. I was skeptical that it would be that ... conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... immortalize them on the internet. So, what's it like when 4 MIT students visit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note="okay, so, this is only the second time. but it's been a year okay ... hours arguing about how great they all were, and finally settled on this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  compatible. :) This was your weekend, and we're curious how it went for you ... like it here despite the weather. MIT rules!!" -actual '14 testimonial ... House International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of a waitlist place, or how many students we will ultimately admit from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  strangest dream of my life. Many will argue it was a nightmare. All of my ... FORWARD TO TIME PRESENT** So this week, it wasn't organic chemistry as much ... Professor Bush as my 18.02A recitation instructor. (It's a small world after

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... . People hold up cell phones and stream the concert onto the web. It looks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... whole Pset in one sitting with no breaks Actually learn how to spell

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... only grades and not narrative text if you can help it. For example, it is ... "Spring semester;" it will be, in many cases, better to leave it blank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  one So I left, that is it That's my life, nothing is sacred I don ... ’m not sad now. maybe it’s just the expectation that i’ll see people again ... what it’s like to keep touch with friends over the internet now.) maybe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  Colbert's interviews with various MIT guests. So basically, there was a long ... remote regions of the world.   Simon Johnson on how big banks must

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  prevention. I listened to the class, how it was taught, and how the kids ... Conference had attendees and sponsors from all over the world. It was an honor ... inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to ... class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten minutes to do each of the first two psets so i didn't stress about it until i saw my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take ... , because I thought it would be mostly political theory, but I was assured ... -Conner?"]housing.[/annotation] It was really nice to see that the professor cares about (a) making the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  symbols There is exactly one set in that board of 20 cards. Find it before ... with 81 cards, sets of 3, and more insanity. It also happens to be ... last week finding it, in a coding competition at 3am. It all started

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  it belongs in Plato’s theory of Forms; it exudes the very essence of what it means to be a pie, and all pies are merely shadows of its perfect ... attention of the frazzled shopkeeper to put in their order. And it turns out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  ) and it’s bound to be a good show. For me, it’s wonderful how easy it is ... my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s ... I learned about student rush. It operates a bit differently based on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  about how campaigns like these honor MIT's commitment to diversity by ... years that she pioneered her role at MIT, "It was important to justify the position," she said, "But the need for it was very high." Perhaps one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... was a high school senior, I had visited MIT by myself for CPW, and it ... left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  impact on me, it’s science fair. This weekend, approximately 1800 high ... . It sometimes feels like science fair was just always there. The way cyberchase was. I grew up with it. I grew up asking questions. I grew up with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... for 45 minutes and then go back to packing, before we knew it we'd been ... sense it was my last time hearing it. Partly because hearing it at an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022