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• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  break will all be online. We've been instructed to move out, packing as if ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into the 1918 flu epidemic suggests that closing schools and cancelling large

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  , admissions counselor Katie Kelley and a current undergraduate student will be on hand for an hour to answer all your CPW questions and give you a ... , March 28. And don't forget to complete the Medical Release Form

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  's confident that the proteins would be ripped apart and rendered harmless by such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to ... parts to beef cattle, but turkey and chicken cannibalism are still legal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu ... ability to interact with each other, with us, with current MIT students, and ... the not-too-distant future, although it will take a lot of planning and

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  the fall and spring terms, which we spend taking courses, doing research ... and community members four almost-completely-free weeks to participate ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  being real and not trying to sugarcoat things... so bravo.) Post ... process online this summer, which involves a lot of learning and testing ... our senior bloggers Bryan, Sam, Mitra and Jessie. They've been a huge

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  dinner with my brother (MIT '17), aunt, and uncle (who live in Boston), and ... balancing family and American culture; I identify strongly with the main character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... function and what we can do with it! What if we can somehow make our text

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  green unwashed street fruit and watching rain flinging against skyscrapers ... ) can score an online reservation for Jean-Georges and expect to be served ... only identified fruits/vegetables in Spanish), purchased and drank half a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  … affiliated? It’s fun to look at an image online and think [annotation note ... event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in that there are no activities other than taking pictures, snacking, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and ... , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC ... family took into our home two new Maltese girls -- Tiffany and Coco

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  money for travel and then stay at hostels with friends. I made it a point ... office, and I even more vividly remember the day -- December 14, 2004 ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... , I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ... new people online (i ended up being number 42/100). they mentioned that ... theorizing will be wildly inaccurate and the only way to really understand your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  care and consideration. That’s part of why we’re slow. There are real ... ALL THE EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS are upon us. So many. If you’ve been trying to contact the Admissions office regarding your application, and you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  rarely find in "real" life, except maybe in start-ups. And in a sense, I ... Today, winter left Boston. I woke up and found that the snow had melted, the ice had mostly thawed away. The streets were clear and the air

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  startups. His first company was started in high school and was an online game ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... , and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers like 2.671, 2.ThU, 2.009, and 2.087 (which can be replaced by 18.03, if

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to ... registered for MyMIT and live in the US, you should receive your application by the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  ) and chilled for four months taking various online courses, studying Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... ~, where I interacted exclusively with my parents and online friends on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019