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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive ... MIT! There's a couple more of them around campus, but I didn't want to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  sleeping late on weekends, and tears, smiles, and hugs still feel the same to ... logical stage of development, one of career plans or just a new direction in ... my local community college. If you've got your heart set on a specific

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... Tube until eventually moving on to another project. Months went by until one ... since he’d first stepped foot on this new land. With renewed vigor in his

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you ... little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... 't have a foreign language requirement, so you don't really need to worry ... gives three lines for a response. I job shadow a Pediatrician on a regular

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select ... $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little ... are still more than a Chipotle burrito ($7.50 after tax at Kendall). To

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists ... , spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls ... MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  Class of 2010 steps on campus next fall, they will find a cohort of ... . Renaldo Webb, a Marrero, La., native who plans to study subatomic physics, is the first person in his family to attend college. A graduate of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  . Theoretically, I had a weekend to work on all of it. But, that Thursday and Friday ... family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a ... , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... a high standard. There's no room to fail. On NPR's Morning Edition ... from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... . Former hotel. Don't know much since I'm not a woman, but seems to house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  'm planning out my analyses, learning to use a new tool, or referencing a past ... 'm quantifying. I try to make plots in a way that allows each plot to show a new ... the Numbers What is it like to climb a 20-story building 22 times

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  ? Several people I know have also hopped on the wagon – it’s a movement! So…. I’ve worked on a grand total of…dun dun dun… 1 page. :X I know, I ... place... or the fact that you're almost expected to "spend" after a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... lead to a collision. Bathroom exits have stop signs too. If you are traveling with a group, do not, under any circumstances, use all four lanes to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  preparing a new creation titled "Konnecting Souls" which will have its ... to generate sounds. Fitted with sensors linked to a musical interface ... Konnecting Souls Franck II Louise Company Hip-Hop and New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  love to do a thesis on final fantasy 7 (somehow). reading cracking the ... before it gave up for the day. my original plan had been to work on my ... gestating for a while and learn some new things along the way. learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... to San Francisco with my boyfriend CV, who just graduated and has a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009