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• 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 statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  've ever had (for 6.006) had his recitation at around 4-5 and he made me ... The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... 't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  basic introduction to life and academics at MIT. And for the record, this ... entry is worth it solely for the photo at the bottom. Nance: "I've Got 99 ... . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  neurobiology lab for not pre-registering for it before July. Normally, you pre-register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open ... violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  other and getting yelled at by the Sheriff for being too close to the ... for you fools. On our way back to the house at 1pm, boats were ... no less than 3 independent groups of Thetas there for brunch at the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But ... I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically ... ? Ich auch. There are two main exam periods at ETH: the End ... get at MIT. However, that means that students at ETH don't necessarily

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  and Angelina Jolie order for lunch at an Edmonton eatery? Is a GE air ... weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I ... for Gossip, Entertainment News, and Consumer Information Peter Cohn

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  them sitting at a lab bench while wearing a white lab coat, safety ... at her and possibly send her to MIT Medical. Anna has every music lover's dream job: she researches Japanese hip-hop for Professor Ian Condry, an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Carson Beach? Well, it was a holy grail for me, at least. Nobody else had ... this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a ... .M. Church. I live at 12183 Cainwood Avenue. I aspire to become an author. (and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  frozen for a couple months of the year. So I grabbed the opportunity at MIT ... turn out for the big football game and get drunk beforehand, or where ... as smart as you were. My friends at MIT who were varsity athletes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  major who has been a campus leader at MIT for the past 4 years. In ... , James Lipton, and Bernard Shaw, I present to you my attempt at journalism ... a chance to hear what she had to say about her experiences at MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... residents, mostly frosh, she's a new arrival at Simmons. Unlike those ... stay at Simmons, she brought Butterstick - who is hypoallergenic - along

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  Times was not at all what I expected, but everything I could've hoped for ... I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New York Times, which at one point made me use so much Rails I had dreams

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  this year. During this time, we've been waiting for all our admitted ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the " ... list. Today, at 5pm Eastern Time, we will notify all remaining students

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  continue my adventures here at MIT by doing all the things. So when I got an ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to go and signed up for the trip. It was an annual trip that the Boston

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  World" as people want to do. Where: La Maisonette What to Bring: At least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random ... people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  at Mike's Pastry. Mike's Pastry is one of many bakeries and cafes in Boston's North End and is well-known for its delicious cannolis. Over the course of my time at MIT, I've had many treats from Mike's Pastry - but, as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead ... missing for me, though, was physical fitness. At some point, and almost on a ... change I accepted, even grew to love, for a time. Even at a Freshman

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012