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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  econ PhD programs go on to research/teach as professors or employees of a ... from other departments to launch a new product/service and change the ... ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre ... prefrosh until convocation when President Reif gets on a stage and says that ... plenty of building going on next week, and we are so excited for you all to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  might add: please allow your interviewer some time to get back to you ... applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular ... are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... you try your best to answer a game-problem.) To make sure they are well ... -problem-making-person did not plan for, or if no checking-person is able to get the right

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... vendors) get on the big screen try the festival beer ride on someone ... . Strangers offer to put you on their shoulders when you can’t see over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  always seemed to end up on. It always felt complicated talking to Kenneth ... remember talking to Eva, filling her in on my experience. "I hate them so ... , come visit me. They're probably the closest people I had to best friends

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about ... or ideological bubbles.   Wikipedia took me to the article on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... new store, I took a different street back to my dorm. [caption id ... on the banks of the Charles River to restrict British passage on the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  phase where I wanted to go into cybersecurity but I went on this trip to ... and its content is everything I've always wanted to learn about. I hate ... the process of learning, but five days isn’t enough to get me over the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  the line, and you learn quickly to take it in stride, get back on and ... slacklining, so I gather, lies in training your leg to counter-wobble against ... pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  of times just to see how they were doing. They seemed to be getting ... engineering. Solution? Ginny '10 found an invention contest on AbsolutelyNew ... , and look to your left, you'll see a large display case full of 2.00b

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... event, and I don’t need notifications to remember what’s going on in my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  to give examples on MIT chemistry research. Prof. Tim Jamison's lab can ... students get so excited "they sometimes forget to eat!" 10:05am: Prof ... burrito at Anna's Taqueria, I head on over to the UROP panel. There are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  working on my own terms. Also, being able to watch Avatar: The Last ... , and to go on long bike rides around Cambridge/Boston is absolutely ... pandemic hasn't wreaked utter havoc on the world. Everyone is mandated to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  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 ... carried away there. Time flies when you're talking to a camera, I guess

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

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to be working on applications right now! (If you're interested, later tonight on campus events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  know that there are four different states your interview can take on the ... 'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... with your interviewer to send us an extra (first?) copy of your interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... extracurricular opportunities, a brief four-year respite on my journey to become a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  on a test that had not yet been shown to be a good indicator of a ... to a speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas ... Yesterday's New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... methods to get small amounts of data from very large amounts, while my ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011