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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  the most creative analogies I’ve ever heard. I’m at wind ensemble ... we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... all the questions my mother and I had about MIT. It was an afternoon well spent. I am thrilled to say that even though we do now have CPW, in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... closed. But I digress...last Friday morning I was assigned to do the session. Now, I knew that the application was due to be go live this week

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  So it’s been cold lately. And when I mean cold, I mean like our-room ... -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  snowman experience below: (Note: I promise that I have a non-snow related ... .) On Sunday when I heard there was going to be yet another snow storm hitting Boston, I called up my friend Dan '10. "Did you hear about the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  ,'' Elizabeth Lozada said. ''I just remember thinking it would be the premier ... about the inevitable goodbye. ''This whole week, I've tried not to think about it,'' the Lake View High School secretary said. ''I told my co

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the New York Stock Exchange (maybe I'll see fellow MIT alum and NYSE CEO John Thain '77). On the bus ride down, I was reading today's New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus ... fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Mollie B. '06's post re:MacG remains true, but I may need to update some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend ... about. Especially for a car guy. Espresso at 8 am: I'm awake. Sounds of the Ferraris roaming the grounds at 8:15 am: I have arrived. A few days

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  makes it stylish; a perfect combination of aesthetics and performance, I ... way I take pictures. A close-up: A glamour shot: Jesse explains ... design: (Fearing I might intimidate prospective freshmen with the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the connection between stereotype and reality. At all. I think it must be that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  It's been so long since I've last posted! Sorry! Things have been ... charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I loveee Cake and was super, super excited. In all my excitement, I brought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... decisions were not easy. If you applied and didn’t make it this year, I highly recommend trying again next summer. I got in as a sophomore, the second time I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the people you call Mom and Dad. (I'm sure that you call them other things when

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I ... with tiny slits where the windows open. Again, the views are beautiful. I tried to take photos when I was in town, starting with some evenings

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  The Forbes blogs broke an interesting story early last week that I went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to ... blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011