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• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  Today I flew back to campus! I returned earlier that most students ... to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have ... my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  photography, and the list goes on with names such as Laplace and Lavoisier ... of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in ... illuminated the time and date on the meridian, traced on the floor. Right: Salle

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  .) Between transferring addresses, splurging a weekend on Mystery Hunt, helping ... Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  say that: the blogs actually turned twenty on August 6th, 2024. But as ... decade away from discovery. Multiple Mars rovers have landed, explored, 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 / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I ... me keeps on asking, "Okay, so you finished one year, congratulations ... . Before I take off on Saturday, though, I have to deal with what I think has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  explore. I hope you’ll join me on this journey and tell me what you find ... us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5 stages of grief ... was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... except for the voice on the other end. I’m not sure how many of the words I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  really want to take the time to reflect on everything I've learned ... Oxenfree and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Doing these classes also helped ... speak in Twitch chat terms like poggers or sadge or copium and people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a ... guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine ... on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the ... left, two ECs help the attending crowd check in. At right, EC Joanna Tan ... name on a billboard. The school was Whitney High School in Cerritos, CA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the ... Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow ... professor Woodie Flowers PhD '72. Look for MIT on Scholarship Row. For AP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... vector, time is a scalar, so I caught the shuttle and arrived on campus ... entrants: I was, at times, in the chat group with Omar (in the picture of

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not ... disappointed, are remaining upbeat, continuing to work on other applications, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  , encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast Pacific Ocean on the other. Tucked into little apartments and host families ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  to dream even bigger. Check out my feature on MIT News written by ... energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the ... , pushing training to the side. I didn't even plan on skating this season

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  , where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 ... residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a ... assortment of interests and idols isn’t much help for figuring out life. I know

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  know many of you have been anxiously awaiting news about our wait list ... on admitting students from the wait list. However, this year, we saw an ... list. Today, at 5pm Eastern Time, we will notify all remaining students

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  today, a colleague sent me a news article called From Wilton to Wall ... why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... on the Wall Street trading floor after completing several demanding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I'll try to post (or more likely, tweet) to share with you all. Today, this mention of MIT was on CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  check on him. There would be some bubbles. I would add flour and water ... more bubbles. But, he never rose! I read so many articles on sourdough ... overshadow the fact that he truly needed help. So, I made some fake sourdough

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020