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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  ; Ultimately, not only did I end up learning how to use the gym, but I got a ... and it’s really cool picking up a new skill. When I started the class

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... Eliot Young were growing up in Newton, Massachusetts, family life revolved

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  -to-late April with an update on what you've been up to since our last contact ... interactions with us! Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and beyond if

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and ... that we have to study the material on our own, or attend make up lectures

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  knowing how to do things never stopped us before. Here's what I ended up ... kitchen over winter break, and picked up a few recipes. I tagged along with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  on takeoff, but he made a high-performance takeoff, pulling up just in ... biplane took a payload of pumpkins up over the fake town at the back of the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  up on the material I have missed. Being a part of the team has ... which case that was probably a really bad analogy. Our season wraps up

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  escalators reach over to their neighbors on the up escalators for high-fives as ... -person. We wrapped up the night by heading to Chinatown and sitting down for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  made a few other changes. We aged up Juliet. She is now a high school ... sure about it. But she is actually growing up in a college town, fair ... ’s a lot of opportunity at MIT to open up and explore things you haven

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  update on what you've been up to since our last contact. You can also ... interactions with us! Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and beyond if

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  ("Beethoven to Mahler", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... . In the morning, Mr. Potchatek got up on a table in the English pod with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  .] Frozen Dinnerable Things: Entree Chicken Drumellas (Nuggets) [I grew up ... ) [good for packing with lunches. I grew up drinking one of these every day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  resting up in preparation for all of your RA applications! We will be back ... deferred or those of you still finishing up your RA applications in time for

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... , dressed them up, transformed her living room into a stage + bar + music, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  has responsibility for cleaning up after herself and learns how it ... many students in that same hall they talk about meeting up back at the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  been up to since our last contact. You can also feel free to provide any ... very nice in all of your interactions with us! Keep us up to date all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a ... winning: "I didn't f--- this up!  Now I get to troll Politico

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... in the White Mountains. Supposedly, I'd signed up because I love hiking

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  up here. Moving here from Chicago in 8th grade felt like settling into ... the rooted alumni that make up the cultural core of the town, football ... grew up in a home that loved football—Penn State Football. I had a PSU

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  here. The name plate on our door has four slots, taken up by AWESOME PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012