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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (Title above and song below inspired by lyrics from Avenue Q's "What ... ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of ... 't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the

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

  Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic

  

  this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  getting myself to write a novel than read one. Which brings me to the next ... . I have one book to my left—Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight—which I was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... application to us by November 1st, especially if you are still dealing with ... —  could use a bit more time to get everything together for their college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... to get students to talk to me, but this is understandable -- it took me ... "smart" and it would be a pity if I didn't get to use my brain as much as I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting ... , so this is my favorite way to order food. In addition to getting to ... deadlines. The only struggle is picking something to do. With so many good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  he expects the new one will be up by midday Sunday. "You need to be ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... realized that according to many theories, we shouldn't be seeing anything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take ... you, college students don’t have to get up until around 9 or 10 and get out at like 3, how do you not get enough sleep?” To little high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... 's already broken - what's important is getting to the root of the problem in ... Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's a shame that I actually misplaced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... strong enough to get things done on my own, and I shouldn't need help. In

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  I write has to be reviewed by security, and needless to say, it's a ... photos I did get were cool though. Oh well, you win some, you lose some--though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students, about experiences we’ve lived ... the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this ... questions with answers that can be found easily on the website or that require

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... note="because it's like, really close to east campus. temptingly close

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... school) trying to get me to go there. I didn't get into MIT." (Phone is no ... for something. The years that I'd worked hard to get into college had

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  them are meaningful.   let's get right to it! https ... Part by AJR — i listened to this a lot before going to see AJR. i really ... 've listened to it an unspeakable number of times this year Crash My Car by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020