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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  to catch them, though, it may help protect fish by enabling ... Pinkett: The Tech: Once you leave MIT and get out into the real world, to ... With all these applications, it's tough to find time to blog. There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects ... . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to ... website. Another reason was this magical thing called "Web 2.0." Web 2

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... if we are going to be initiated, do we get to know what we're going to have to do?" (followed by several examples of initiation activities) Riv

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new initiative called CrowdMath. Richard sez: ...inspired by Terry Tao's Polymath ... problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to ... 'll pop in and out as I can to answer whatever gets posted. ... questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... succinct description (borrowed from the official Lose The Game website

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  people, brought together by their interest in applying to MIT but with much ... to get this redesign right, your ideas and thoughts and feedback are ... you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  happened, but I’ve got to get back to making pretty pictures for my ... come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  weekend than by taking an 18-hour train ride down to the French Riviera? Now, it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera ... asked my lab supervisors to talk with me in German, I'm getting an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear ... getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  by knowing what I have to look forward to and how I could get there ... started to keep track. I adapted a Google Sheets Monthly Budget template and ... 'm still off by almost 40% when comparing the total estimated spending to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a ... discussed over a dozen times by various bloggers, websites, and other people ... getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... great opportunity to get to know a few dozen classmates well, before ... control boxes, participants get to take a cruise of Boston Harbor and learn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  almost certainly how you should get to campus! Or you could walk, or bike ... option, by far, is to drive to campus. The traffic is very bad, the roads ... Infinite Corridor its central artery; by extension, we have now moved out to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  interesting response to me, because I get it. I usually respond to this ... I sit down to put it [annotation note="paper? Google docs? I’ll just ... thoughts to myself. I’d get lost in my thoughts on teaching and math, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  figured out by now. “It’s okay for everything not to be fine.” I found my ... to quantify, and I am frequently shocked at how much I am motivated by ... want to get out of bed in the morning. My therapist graciously snapped

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  the MIT routine sometime. Later that day, we went to get food with a ... ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... to get work done. I found that the best test of whether I really ... probably an appropriate time to address the issues that Cam brought up in his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010