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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... or imagined slights, typically related to their unorthodox studies." Ok ... , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  definitely doesn’t have a coherent point of view or an extensive blogging ... least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... about whether she’s going to be a scientist or an engineer.) And I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters ... or is it more of an isolationist feel? - Noise level? 5. Miscellaneous ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement ... 't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  rest of stem was interesting too anyway, all this is to say that lately ... , i would simply move onto my friends of friends, and so on. there is no ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... I would never really be set on a college until May, because MIT was to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in ... Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By ... lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  or snail mail, as we do not plan to send out admissions decisions in ... admit rate of 10%, or about one of every ten applicants. We have offered a place on the waitlist to 454 students. We on the admissions committee put

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... climate change is the number one problem facing humanity, and I want to be ... ," he said. His latest attempt to help people through science lies on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions ... had to stay up all night working on that (favorite expletive) p-set." Punts take various shapes, from kittens meowing on Youtube to the entire

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... , a lot of the problems I worked on this week had real life applications ... by Professor John Bush on the math of sports balls. I actually had

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of ... very fun. We saw lots of building and paint on walls that was very "wow

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  's own Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones) Speaking of parents: to the parents reading this blog, is there anything you'd like me to talk about, or ... Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard ... explaining: Or you can just watch this, a video of an interesting phone call

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... or displaced by Hurricane Katrina. We can only imagine the extent of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the ... to live within walking distance of MIT, but then I got old and traded ... rail on a Saturday or a Sunday and do some exploring (you can easily get

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or ... ). Then there's that dizzying moment on the first day of classes where you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009