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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  Weinberg who discovered the first human oncogene Ras. Of course, many ... top of the page each time we turn something in. Unfortunately, I make ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... written here is from my own personal experience or the advice of others. If ... ” award – Walking around is, in my opinion, the most enjoyable method of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  engaging. I made mine on Apple Pages. The first version I did on Google Docs ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... , and I think a lot of it is from the skills that I gained in my first ... myself. When I first came to college, my arrogance got the best of me. I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  scheduled, waving an awkward hello to the first of the ex-boyfriends as we ... from 8.02 (electricity and magnetism), a couple of people from the best 2 ... 'd just like the thousands of prefrosh who read this to know about the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth ... busy times of the year, like summer break. Here was my reading list for ... Safran Foer The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  me. It was the first time that I saw a tiny piece of a glass ceiling ... Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... Leaders (NCCWSL).   I had gone the whole weekend without a picture

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... ="Comparative Media Studies"]CMS[/annotation] CI-M. CI-Ms are part of the communication ... typically get out of the way your freshman and sophomore year. Then there are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  you get when writing the date on the first assignment of the new year ... – the day of the first counselor meeting to prepare for FAP. We walk into ... new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  reviewed in one of two methods. The first method is through small peer review ... rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  and I set off for the final leg of the journey: Whole Foods and Trader ... the whole time"]6+ hours of cooking,[/annotation] the feast was complete ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  find a jug of whole milk next to the half-and-half. Though I'm sure it ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... present all of our really cool research to the big industry sponsors funding

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... to the front of the stage when it was my time to start singing and did

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... health attestations, physical distancing, quarantine week, the whole nine

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky ... runner Pam Reed of Tuscon, Arizona was the first person in history, of ... -page paper on the evolution of hominid bipedalism for AP Bio, and so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week ... topics. For the best source of information, please visit web ... the deadline to accept MIT's offer of admission? You need to return our

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not required to send your official scores as part of your application ... you submit the application, you are still able to add them by following
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... of each and my first impression. 10.213: Chemical Engineering ... the first and last time ever, and it ended up being something like the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my ... . In fact, I don't think I'd ever had any sort of Mexican food beyond the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011