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  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to congratulate Early Action students on getting into MIT. It was... tough. What do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  called No Flip Flops which was full of pointers on how to survive a winter at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information ... heard of them, don't feel bad. I learned about them on Monday myself. We

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . With the poor animals on the brink of death, present day me doesn’t find ... wandered off into the wilderness of the supermarket, intent on seeing the ... decision yet, I’d encourage you to go out of your way to form a concrete

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  traditional phrases for good luck on one side of the slab. Surprisingly (or not ... fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and ... more efficient way of eating traditional sushi （

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here ... yourself, so I decided to try out something new tonight while making dinner. And that was to film it. On video. And put it on the internet. Whether

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website ... send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  Jeff: you mean da BAAAAD way? lyk, gurl you so bad me: no. Jeff: oh ... obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  . And just to put their own stamp of approval on the class, some hackers ... .01, and 6.02 in the new curriculum. There are a lot of students that don ... Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  questions with answers that can be found easily on the website or that require ... is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments ... Class of 2017 has arrived and is doing Orientation.  Classes will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... .g. experience on a sports team), and creativity (e.g. mastery of an instrument ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  the way that people are just fully committed to the bit. They put on ... new season of Dimension 20 is A Court of Fey and Flowers, an Austen ... for 'binging copious amounts of Dungeons and Dragons content.' I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  good bit of traveling around Japan - hopped on stones over the pond at ... to. The cherry on top of this weird, informally-dressed sundae is that ... of seniority - being so good at bird surgery that you don't even get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated ... [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  the ground—at home I did a good 40% of my homework and 90% of my You ... managed to move my bookcase on top of my drawers under my bed (this ... ) Overall Rating of My Amazon Purchases Most were good decisions, some less so

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  " ***** "...so apparently [fruit punch?] is a good source of red-40..." ***** on ... , it's good for you. I bet there's a parabola of benefits versus ... competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was ... I knew. I try to base it on wordcount, outside of school; 1k words a ... working on an early draft of one project and a final draft of another at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best ... theatres, and I met the author of the book the movie was based on, Margot Lee ... professor of the class, Mark Bear! On the right is an MRI scan of Prof. Bear

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... bunch of other cool "ideas"!   Photos from the judging session are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  way of living -- making a home, even if only for three months. this ... bare. and mit is here, too, as a sort of virtual public. on the dorm ... media and mediation on MIT's instance of mastodon (it's like twitter but

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017