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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  she struck a deal with me that we'd share payment for groceries, she ... an 8x15 space with another person for a summer without killing him or ... procedure is. Is it playing around with the rats? I do love playing with the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  putting on eyeliner plays. I grab my bag, and leave the room. With the ... bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me ... ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  business. now i want to apply to some top us universities for my bachelors in ... of for now). Something you chose yourself, with a preexisting culture ... chosen for you, and with the different options available, it would be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  ://student.mit.edu/ (with certificates), click "for Students," then "Biographic Record." You ... , ask around for the RCC, an upperclassman who deals with such requests ... has. The process you follow is to sign up for a Moira

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14 ... conversations with other people around telling them stories, and listening to ... was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  make you want to live with Mitra and me? One of our favorite floor pastimes to relieve stress is smashing fresh coconuts with a mace, so we ... successful last year. Our floor is called English House, for reasons

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... . Part 2 is from freshman spring 2015. Senior winter 2018, I do not endorse

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... -week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising high school ... ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... -week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising high school ... ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm away, Ben will be posting for me a number of blog entries I've pre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  . Coexisting with the sage, rosemary and mint I bought for a dollar a plant, and ... cereal with berries, and, for the next few weeks, most likely plenty of ... for the reason behind my renewed vitality until I'd made it through

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center ... for myself, now that i have this weekend with pretty much nothing ... from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  for Seoul's own Model UN conference. With this year being another ... Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for ... around for three years, the Model UN culture has thrived at the Institute

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  admission is tough; with a 6% admit rate, it's especially true for transfer ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and ... from MIT and Wellesley, as well as faculty from the Center for Advanced

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  talked about how badly planning is needed. For me, combining planning with ... Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross-disciplinary, flexible, and engaged with the larger world in ways many other departments

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  ; Juliet in the sense that both deal with romantic love unrequited because of ... reenergized my desire to experience Wagner. Prospects for me not only managing ... active community of students with an exceptional interest in the arts. The

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  because, well, there's no milestone associated with this age (besides being able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday ... with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  , I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television ... stopped and read the first line. I started screaming on the top of my lungs ... dabbing to imaginary music, mind you in-sync with one another, with my two

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... , and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011