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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  on our website you're really just not trying. That's more of an opinion ... few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  sort. But if you're going to Portland for a day, forget all that ... end. Your mission is to hold the rope with one hand, letting the ball ... -Knot's (plush, not rubber), so when your children decide to start smacking each

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you're ... ; Computer Science] Department, and allows girls to explore through hands-on ... here writing this entry. Summers are a great time to focus your energies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  to get your leg somewhere and now you’re on top of someone; or they did ... some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild ... you have something horizontal to hold on to, which makes holding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of ... -Men Origins are no longer canon! With the new X-Men movie coming out this week

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  a personalized plan to help you optimize your health based on your own ... to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments ... ". So there is an FPOP for entrepreneurship! I looked up their website to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  perfumes at the duty free shop, since I'm currently looking to buy a ~new ... estimate on when it would leave. I quickly did the math and figured that ... system comes on for the pilot to make an announcement. Apparently, Berlin

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja said: I think I would just die if I were you... No, really, just to stand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  out. in his post, sam wrote: Do new things often. This seems to be really important. Not only does doing new things seem to slow down the ... do something big, new, and risky every year in your personal and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  do not need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify part or ... , continuing to work on other applications, and knowing that one year from now ... ." Your application will once again be considered by the committee during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify part or all of ... strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly ... , you're currently doing regular action selection for domestic applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... cutting-edge fourth industrial revolution technology to run through walls ... drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... ways of thinking. Your desire to skip classes increases exponentially ... the initiative. Don't be afraid to change your mind. It's great to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  have any questions. Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of the ... around to help you. Try to do this even if you’re on a meal plan. Make a ... energy, so try to use it wisely. Be prepared to study on your own, a lot

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  to rely on others, and that optimism, while hard to maintain at times ... , haha) could have been used to describe me. Thanks to one of my friends, Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  quickly to support something that they really believed had potential to ... three of us were working on getting the website and applications up. We ... just pushed out so much work to get the website ready for the launch. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... you put on your résumé when you have nothing to put on your résumé when ... 's better to have fewer things on your resume that stand out, than to have a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008