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• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting ... hard work, collaboration, and fun. All were elements of Tayo ... tickets and luggage…a lot of forecasting based on data and calculated

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  diverse corners of the world and seeing how much energy and talent you bring ... pool, and all have your own very special accomplishments to be proud of ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school ... disguise...kind of) and still have managed not to pull an all-nighter (for ... this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals ... example problems out of my notes and try to solve them instead of copying ... throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing.

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  Meetings. Across the country (and across the world) there will be meetings of ... A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... students around 6pm Eastern time, and working our way west until around 11pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer ... the home of my boss-to-be while he and his family are vacationing. I had ... 's program, and he studied under several of the faculty I know personally. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  thickness of all Parafilm products is 0.005 (127 um) and although we are often ... is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible ... , impressive water vapor transport properties, and is resistant to many common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , and thus saving the five instead of the one, saves five morally good ... positive, and thus which kind of people are morally positive. To not be ... —perhaps a result of genetics or a terrible upbringing, and thus scenarios

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... grades, and after the loss of my Uncle, I started to look to food as a ... progressed in 6th grade, and I found myself being scared to eat many of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of ... , which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: EA Not Admitted

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of ... , which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in attendance. Last night, my parents, my brother and I gathered for our traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario and pipe. This is my roommate Rob. He willingly accepted my plea to ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  !). Economics is not a super common field of study for undergrads, and while she ... and a “Letter of Motivation” which explained why I wanted to do MISTI ... of presentations about stuff like safety and Mexican culture and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and ... by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... , I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... thing about step by step directions instead of a map, one mistake and you ... stopping at a drugstore and buying a map of Boston. After a quick map viewing

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008