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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  's how it works. You should accept the offer of admission from another ... ) after decisions r mailed out..." Of course! Here goes, catching up on your ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign ... angry with." These work with varying degrees of success.) I hoped to ... This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  to the boy I thought was the love of my life, or goodbye to the boy I thought was the love of my life. I've spent these past few days revisiting ... back in California because every memory here is now slightly tainted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  degrees all winter so when we had a couple inches of snow my town forgot how ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It's been really fun so far, exploring all of Tokyo's neighborhoods - peering

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today ... community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  waitlist? We offered 389 applicants -- approximately 3% of applicants -- a ... accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past ... the offer of admission from another college before May 1. After May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger ... faculty and staff from all around MIT help members of the community practice

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with polymers better than some of my materials science classes. And it got me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  been taught, even despite taking all of my school's offered physics and ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the ... clash of my exam and i couln't give it. in december i have my exam again

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... those prints mightily in the warm weather of Saint-Tropez. Then again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011