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• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... should be, what would I think was the most striking thing? Would it be the ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever ... -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  7:17 pm Tonight is the EA admit telethon, wherein we spend all night ... guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... online. Stand by the phones guys, we're callin' everybody! 7:18 pm Matt Mc

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  hit the mat. Talk about being knocked into next week. You win this time ... get up and keep fighting, because you will make it. And when the match is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I ... can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website. [If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  things like the American Mathematics Competitions, and science students can enter the Intel Science Talent Search, but if you really like building ... as we do about the big awards. It's true. Students who send in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  Global Real Estate Group in the Fixed Income Division. Favorite MIT Class ... the topic is highly interesting and something I'd have been completely ... everyone in the class. Random MIT Memory: Trying bubble tea for the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other interesting problems. Other cool problems were the marriage problem, and ... professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  Well, we've already been over the fact that I like recording minutiae ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  This week, MIT admissions officers will begin to travel across the ... in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and ... first regional meeting of the year, Thursday night in Orlando/Winter Park

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot, tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  5th East alum, primering the room into which I'm supposed to be moving (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been ... painter and it wasn't going well - and the more I realized that it was going

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high-risk. The potential outcomes weren't you took no action so you are not dating ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until ... designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  everything that’s happened since we last met, mostly focused on the developing ... the news before bed. I thought about the nightmares I’ve had, ranging ... difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  : 1) Google's homepage. 2) My favorite constellation is the APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the seven daughters (the constellation is also called "The Seven Sisters") of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... make one this year. Also, these posts are basically the only point all ... 1: Learn the building numbers – 99% complete. I'm SO CLOSE. I just had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024