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• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  loved both words and numbers, but the former came more naturally. In no ... should work on to make my writing better? No one had ever said that to me ... writing? No way. I wish I could tell you that I took his advice and made an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , so, you got me. There was no ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny ... wrong: it certainly was no easy ride, and I still have vivid memories of ... cookies and cake. History at MIT, I quickly learned, is no joke (chris here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  -win team behind a new no-huddle offense and a line that lost two starters to ... place where there's no tug-of-war between football and academics ... which no classes or labs are scheduled, giving students a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... mention that the topics were covered swiftly and in-depth. Make no mistake ... familiar sights on campus? No idea. But, you ask, did you learn? Did you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  neighborhood.   No. 6 House The No. 6 Club is a co-ed literary fraternity ... members. Although No. 6 remains part of a national organization and we ... plumbing generally is no fun. Part of owning your own house is maintaining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  "no eres tú, soy yo." The translation is almost exact: "you are not you ... have no idea why. Also, perhaps one of my favorite Spanish words ever is ... the US (in New Jersey, no less!) for 21 years and Spain for a month and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  of Course 2 lab space. But no matter what it is you want to do, I ... 's no way to lead your life. If you lie your way into MIT (which I don ... that may not even be right for you, no one can stop you. But I can tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  popular at MIT or not? Yes? No? What do you think of when you think ... shallow and there's no such thing as hard majors and easy majors, it just ... preaching that. While there is no value in trying to determine an absolute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  the trees. No joke. Majors at MIT are also called "courses" rather than ... , and Linguistics is the same major as Philosophy, and there's no 13, 19 ... degree from the MechE department and no official recognition from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Tralza: Which [Harry Potter]book is your favorite? No! Don't make me choose ... to eating facilities on campus? Uhhh...no idea. Sorry. I can say that ... dining halls visit other dorms for food, but I have no idea how many of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  interpret it causally, we would need to assume that there was no time effect ... we had data from a neighboring state — like Pennsylvania — that had no ... , which had no such wage change; as such, the policy had no impact on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times ... Mandarin, and 1 has no lyrics. The post with the most songs is ... what I would've written around The Scientist. 3. Reese Lansangan – No

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  outings are no longer traditions, DTYD weekend continues to be exceptionally ... , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  Sequence When you first start off in the class, you likely have no idea what ... who had basically no statistics knowledge and zero lab experience ... ) [REDACTED] An expired Peanut Butter Jar filled with Uraninite (No known

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  no taste anyway, and ample time. It hasn’t returned good results ... Airbnb in the suburbs of Phoenix and literally had no other books left ... gentile. However, we have no evidence on Tobias Snape. Totally coulda been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  murder site. People do leave reviews, but there's no verification for ... lot of requests, because a lot of hosts will say no or ignore you. I ... catfishing. Also, there is no verification. I am a "verified member," and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  . Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... , and it’s also just a story about being a kid is hard and no one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... was on point, no denying that. And I would soon learn that it wasn ... no other assignments that day and would come home immediately after my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  cared much. No, what won me over, I'm ashamed to say, was the building ... applicants take), with no regard to where the students are from. The result ... that. No doubt the extra expense of my top-notch education meant one more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  like me here’ and ‘there are people different from me here.’ No student ... consider race.']no other workable methods can achieve that critical mass ... like. Meanwhile, our generous need-based, full-need, no-loan financial

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023