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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs ... 'm on have exploded with commentary, and there will be a survey and a ... to begin with, if they arrive after it was implemented. They have no

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... , for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual ... blogging, but wasn't sure if the audience would remain for the Class of 2019

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... Amber who took that one class with me why is she sleeping here and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  new people and hang out with old friends, out of the fear that they won ... , and I shouldn't put down my past self for not knowing what I know now. I ... while. I think for the most part, my freshman year was spent dismantling

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  my KeyboardFace™ wasn't caused by one big epic scientific fail for once ... with a love of all things scientific, too, or you probably wouldn't have ... 've always wanted to change that, we're still here for you too. That said, let

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  , since my last post about my time in California for LiveScribe, I've flown ... visiting with my family and trying to do as little as possible before the ... see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  man reading the words, but then, in retrospect the prize for first place ... never really forgave myself for that day back in 1996, and it's probably a ... choices. Eventually I settled on Mechanical Engineering, and for me that

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  -Orientation programs for admitted students? Those are run by the Academic Resource ... topics. For the best source of information, please visit web ... us know that you wish to be considered for a blogging position. As most

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but ... opportunities for you to learn about the different departments. At CPW (on Friday), there will be an Academic Fair with representatives from all of the

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

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  were amazing. I looked around on YouTube for a clip but just couldn ... tube-age? BitTorrent! I surfed around on The PirateBay for a while and ... * copyrighted material for which you do not have explicit permission from the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  Every roommate I’ve lived with quickly discovers my hidden superpower ... . My saving grace for the past few weeks has been MIT time. Every class ... Mechanics) for two weeks now (and I haven’t been late at all, thanks to MIT

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  metal cylinder with a cluster of tubes running out of it. Nothing like the ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... year ago because one of the professors saw me working on a project for a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... may know, we have our own application, with 5 short-answer essay ... simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ’s start with high school. For us, MIT was our dream school. We obsessively ... … we got deferred. Suddenly, we were faced with the reality that we ... other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  an email to these students with this information as well. We use Mail ... , more than two, but only two matter here) lists in MailChimp for any given admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... “know” which chromosomes match up with which during anaphase (dividing of ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  overcast day began with a light drizzle. Though simple rain is never enough ... soon as I got on my lunchbreak today was run back to EC for clean shoes and socks. Anyhow everyone was hoping for the drizzle to let up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  on and so forth. I feel like I'm doing that with my time here at MIT ... say time is flying. Take for example MIT. When I was a first year, 100 ... smaller chunks, almost "resetting" your clock. For me, one of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023