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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  over to MIT Medical's Urgent Care. If you're too sick to get there ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work. And we, the MIT students, get to show off our lives to a willing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  with high energy and some pom poms to Tyrant by Kali Uchis, Get Right by ... month of January to prepare for the show, dancing from 6-11 every weekday and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... excerpt….). After getting to MIT and living here MIT slowly just became another place to me. I was getting so caught up in psetting, going to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... solutions to all your design criteria, and then your proposed solution is just ... your solution to a problem, pi is the ith particular subproblem, and s

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... applying to the job. The application gets posted every year around the middle ... frequency. We get paid for each post we write, according to the number of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  Admissions staff with new and exciting things in your life. How to send us ... pigeons.You should send your faxes to 617-687-9184. As always, if you have ... . And what we don't want people to think is that they get any sort of edge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  managing your time since the beginning of the semester. (Note to future self.) You don't have to be on your game at all times, but it's a good idea to ... dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... check now to make sure you can log in smoothly. If you need to reset your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• 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 ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... Frantz. (Luckily, there are more nights of this performance, so I may still get a

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

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... school sends as many students to MIT as yours does. Therefore, when you use ... suggest being brave enough to tell the students that you're too busy when

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over IAP was about designing with constraints. It was about making your own

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers ... I ever invite you to a potluck.” Shortly after- K: Your salad right ... , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to ... want to remind the November 2013 past: Remember your social studies ... . It meant nothing on the larger grading scheme, but to you and your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  learning that students are offered, it can get tiring to constantly shove new information into your brain using these mediums that are not conducive to your ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving ... secretly wanted to do this. ...get special seats at fractal Planetarium

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

   hyped for it, so I'm attaching it to the bottom of this blog post in case you're ... concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... scaffold whatever major(s) and minor(s) your little dork heart desires

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019