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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding ... lot to do this weekend, but I feel more on top of things this semester

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my ... minivan or a sports utility vehicle. It was a strange hybrid of sorts, but ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  helpful to the committee. We do not expect or require any of these things ... definitely by the end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with ... send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify part or all of ... 's nothing that I see to be lacking or needing improvement -- most of our ... end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…

  

  showcases student research in our labs here on campus and in the field worldwide. It should be an exciting celebration of student achievements in research and public service, and it would be wonderful if you could come to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest ... eye on scientific breakthroughs of the past decade or so: As a member of ... , he says, is no less than to reveal the molecular basis of human disease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA ... intellectually -- and it is another thing to go somewhere and witness this fact

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house ... rest are singles. We have nice things on our walls. This is something I ... letters back to their MIT family. We tack them up on the wall in the kitchen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly since MIT is known to be a tough school, and whether looking back, I wish

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly ... nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book ... been married to for 9 years, the father of my kids, and I was cleaning

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under ... attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the dome, a multi-part hack appeared on the morning of September 4, 2015

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that ... or stereotypes. I also didn't limit my search to a particular set of ... research on the selectivity of the colleges (and this is what I mean about

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... to admit the Class of 2029. We still have writers and readers. And ... died on the surface of the red planet in the time we have been posting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  at MIT, he was extended an invitation to speak on campus, which he ... the vigil. If this is the kind of thing that matters to you, you should ... Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... reason why you wear 3-D glasses is to feed different images into your eyes

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... move on with my life. My grad student's policy is "you can make every ... days - and not my usual ten minutes - of moping, I've finally decided to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021