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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  first date - a list of things that the male is supposed to do, and a list ... already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house (during CPW, if you stay in a fraternity, sorority, or independent living

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  . Feel a part of a whole separate world. That’s what I’ll do right now ... suits replace the sweatpants+baggy tee combos and everyone clutches a folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want to continue doing. So what is RUNE as a club like? We are a group of ... inclusion in a glossy magazine published annually at the end of the spring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and ... . As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of ... feeling a little less than confident, I haven't felt like I have any place

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  of their sandwiches is called a Croque McDo, which I guess must be some ... Scrubs" now, in this McDonalds in Marseille where you can order a Croque McDo ... into a never-ending search for free wireless access. Today that came in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  opportunity to do real research through UROP, MIT also has a number of exciting ... -question-asking-young-man, but if you do, I hope this helps clarify things a bit. Next up ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  financial support of a nice fellowship. What are you doing this summer ... I did something today that I had previously sworn I would never do ... much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  cheerleading can be found here -- it's a better picture mostly because I'm doing ... Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately ... than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... off one thing after another. Until, they eventually travel a full circle ... craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  that, it’s a memorial. Writing something on the wall? You don’t do that ... a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... at this hour a fly's footfall would be distinctly heard. As you walk

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... I was having a chat with my friend Matt O. '15 when we both agreed on a few aspects of taking care of yourself we wish we had learned two

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... ? What did he recommend I do as a freshman? What were some events and ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  did a little jig (Yes, I do that too) and went winging off to Google to ... 're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy ... try out for their annual competition, Mic-Check. If a student had a poem

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  feel like i'm not doing enough. i think that's a contradiction that has ... it off. a quote from a post back in march: What am I doing? It doesn ... . it's been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... setting up a stall about a women’s biker club. Security folk were roping off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  have been a Course 7. Other things I'm doing this semester: UROP: One ... do a good job and gain a lot of experience in planning and managing ... At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the ... 't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti program again. do i regret it, saying no? if i went, i would've missed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023