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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do ... to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to ... Rome. And here's where I learned what it meant to suffer from a language

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll ... other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a ... additional students this year for the Class of 2015. Thanks to all of you on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog) vlogging? MEAT CAKE!

  

  give you Snively's 21st Birthday as seen on Conner 2! Watch and see how a birthday is meant to be celebrated! There's everything you could want: jokes ... , they are a changing. The air is crisp, the trees are ebbing into their

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... places an upper limit on the diameter of a telescope at around 10 meters

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  itself is taught in a flipped classroom style to maximize working on such ... Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  remember to keep my room tidy and retrieve my laundry on a timely basis. I ... is currently having on my bank account whenever I walk into a store ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  still be real good time. On Saturday, I went to the Taste of Boston. It ... '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a ... still used to be a pretty popular hangout when it was home to the Anna

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... volunteers we will pick names from a hat." I RSVP-ed attending to this lunch ... share our thoughts on the Brain/Cognitive Sciences major, listening to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  off an A - nor will you be able to do every single problem on a given ... I don't think it's a good idea to be on 72 units, for the sake of ... daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  , on to the point. By now, I suspect that a lot of my readers are ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  depending on what you need to accomplish therein. One is labeled with a drop ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a ... through the alps, he would probably opt to wear something that chafes a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about it and they have a great blogpost on 21E here, but I'll reiterate it ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  got to know at MIT and they've been nothing less of a second family on ... sight and I haven't even begun to process and reflect on what the past ... and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  a couple. My approach to selecting a HASS class is that I want to take a class on material that sounds interesting. Some students like to ... really being able to just select a class I want to take just like I select

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to ... cheaply available. To build that speaker, Gedion used a soldering iron to ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016