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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , physicists, and so on — have a cut-and-dry, formulaic way of approaching ... patients (or whatever you’re studying) to a “treatment” group and some to a ... experiment would be to take a person, give them the vaccine, and see if they

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

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  didn’t. “We’ve gotten to know every student on our waitlist at a very ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... , who, as an applicant, was a frequent commenter on the blogs; was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  driven/flown a long way to come to a meeting, I hope it was worth the long ... about the above scholarship. I would just like to ask your views on how ... ticket' for MIT admissions. With regard to KVPY, it certainly has a lower

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it ... . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline please check MyMIT

  

  Hi all- This is a quick update for our Early Action applicants ... everything into our system. If you have applied to us Early Action, please ... a direct message from us. If you have missing components, don

  • by Kris Guay
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  they felt about a school on its admissions website (which, incidentally ... On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  sign up for these classes on the P.E. website through a lottery that ... signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it ... students, depending on if it’s a bad week and people decide not to show up

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  and began following a YouTube video on how to draw fruit with pastels ... only wanted to do a partial computer science degree, meshing it alongside ... had the opportunity to join a research project where I would study

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... is discernible to a near agonizing point. Couples on campus are just so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... future reference. A cool thing that I find amusing We went over to the ... space over the main entrance to the museum are the vehicles Daedalus (a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  opportunity for me to buy a new, ultra-trendy, well-engineered bowl from the ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually, I just find it to be a little bitter, which may make me a supertaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... spoke to us a few weeks ago!"] A Cup of Water Under My Bed [/annotation

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  media and social media presence and what it means to be a person on the ... to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed ... once I watched Inside, Bo Burnham's new special on Netflix. I've written

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... are paid in summer housing and get a budget to organize on- and off

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  from traits like having grown up on a farm to liking sci-fi movies. This ... community. Having this time to get to know one of the students on a more ... Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  me to skate on. I tried going left, skating for a while to see if there ... . After the Constitution there wasn't a whole lot to see on the freedom ... Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... working on a project to improve battalion communications through the ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008