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• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  to get internships. Or that people are going to think you're selling ... 't go too hot, but I'm really excited. I'm also hoping to get into CMS.100 ... I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get ... questionable. For trade policy, you’d need to get governments from across the ... there's no way to verify this claim by looking at data; like in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... holiday. Apparently (according to Wikipedia, anyway) the parade began back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England ... is MIT's flagship junior year abroad program, allowing MIT students to ... blog" by Amanda Frye, MIT '06 Spending a year at Cambridge has been an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... even when the weather gets atrocious, the warmth of the infinite is only a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  , trying to get everything ready for you guys, they had time to stop and pose ... papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  requirement for my high school--every senior gets the month of may off to pursue ... way to cope with pain, as well as who gets to laugh at that pain. i ... was working at the front desk at my dorm to get free summer housing. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... to simpler times, where success for me was simply defined by good ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  by MIT students. Our main mission at MIT+K12 Videos is to show folks ... like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  to me by my mom’s boss’s wife when we first moved to Chicago 16 years ... Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of ... door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not ... Guth." Is it ever appropriate to address A Famous Person by first name ... course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  trying to get them to miss. I see your hand shaking! I SEE IT! DON'T MISS ... , he was being chased by three ghosts who all needed to be stopped. I ... other half who had to dress up as pilgrims instead of indians. That was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  form and we will be sure to get the interview report. If your EC has ... ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The ... ?” Me: * And then I went back to reading my Martha Stewart Living magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any missing materials sent to us. But at this point, we're only reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  to get kids interested science by working on fun projects.   Can ... voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010