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• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them ... discoveries. They linked to two great articles, one from Wired Magazine and the

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... , and things look good, but we need a few more weeks to be sure. Due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages ... , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top ... communication skills are key to long-term career success. 'Being the best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the ... camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at ... of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to ... one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  drawings. And you know, try not to make it cost a bajillion dollars. My ... so much cool great fantastic stuff, that it becomes tough to blog because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  one point, the guys' race goes by and I notice Paul's REALLY close to ... 't matter, they're just yelling for me to GO!-flashes by in a second. What ... students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... have class from noon to 4, so I usually eat lunch during my documentary ... proceeded to write little messages all over the beach... D) Mark Zuckerberg

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  MIT Admissions plans to make Regular Action decisions available ... to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  -before" craziness today, I thought I'd take a little break to relax and write a shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to ... to the online CPW schedule entry There are going to be 8 really

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked ... )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can't honestly say I've been to every house, I've been to several, and the rooms

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a ... decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... people when we read their applications. We imagine them coming to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  this month. How sweet is that? Anything Into Oil By Brad Lemley Photography by Dean Kaufman DISCOVER Vol. 27 No. 04 | April 2006 | Technology ... . Although the process has never been specifically used to destroy prions

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  associated with touching water that had once belonged to the Charles River and ... heroically toward MIT. Simultaneously bewildered and inspired by the aerobic ... greeting as we passed, accompanied by a frenzied, Picasso-esque facial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  to a mixup with the insurance company; it should be up by next week, in ... So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early action telethon! 54 MIT students total came to chill out and check up on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... don't know about the giant rocks on campus...), but he even had to go as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... contamination of critical water sources. By providing the means to basic hygiene ... contest sponsored by the Public Service Center that encourages students to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  last year when I was remarkably overwhelmed by pressure to have an answer ... Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... ’t either).          It’s upsetting to walk past rooms that belonged to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  paragraph, and ultimately that is not a tradeoff i'm willing to make i don ... november rule, though the point i’m making here applies to plenty of non ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022