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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT ... of going with a wax model. Steve Asles, his stand-in, attended and ... Chicago economist Steven Levitt. He received his PhD from MIT in 1994, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned ... . The insect was properly disposed of and I thought that was it. NOPE. A ... from the kitchen and the sound of Selena swearing. This was the sight

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie ... dining halls, it's good for all of them. So if you live in Next and you ... (fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups) have not been so keen on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of my friends had begun looking for apartments and packing their boxes ... MIT with aspirations of becoming UA president and making sweeping ... up to chair a committee on housing and orientation even though I had

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three ... . The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to and from MIT. We strongly encourage students from underrepresented and
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  .   And that's it! If you've been to any of these places, let me know ... Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... [annotation note="safely and mostly via takeout, of course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... radio shows that you'd find on NPR, and before taking this class I thought ... (or not), organize, and eventually air it on WMBR, MIT's radio station

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  we’d put on the paper anyways. I'm kind of inclined to trust 5 and 6 ... ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... ; 2:34 am: and of course nobody will tell me what the relative

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  about GEL, IAP, MIT, and any other 3-lettered abbreviations we have in ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... my interview with my MIT EC. And I loved how Mystery Hunt was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... once I started working on it with other people and attending office hours ... , one of them always gives. The midterm rolled around. It was on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  , back to procrastination. Although I was Very On Top Of Things for MIT and ... between EA and regular decisions other than work on college apps? A lot of ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... going on in the floor lounge... One of the requirements of 3.091 (one of ... Verde's (the convenience store in the student center) and bought brownie mix and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  sun on my skin; I still see blue skies, light clouds, and networks of ... Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... with Beacon St. and Marlborough St., which run parallel to the water on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in college
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  the hell the Biot-Savart equation is, and make you work harder on your MIT application than on any other. (And that last reason, my friends, is ... Sam's undeniable nerdiness and my own insatiable appetite to document

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  , skateboarding, or any other sport I've tried before. It's fast, terrifying, and ... on and it felt wrong to pull out my laptop (under my seat) and blog ... benefit from the relative freedom and higher risk tolerance of academic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the ... Ratatouille and the tungsten cube Amazon review. because he is part of multiple ... review and good job on the review, it sure is dense. on October 23rd, i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  plenty of notes. On your trip back your child will babble on and on about ... found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your ... pitfalls that make this process focus on the wrong factors and make it a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  on Orientation 2006 and the state of Orientation. More on that in a ... and Conflict in the Middle East. My paper was on the relationship ... , and instead of just showing the anatomy of your brain, it shows which

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood-side lounge and kitchen. PUF spent the summer enjoying a variety of activities

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022