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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , look no further!) Basically there are heavy steel cables which run ... once, but only once... Of course, no trip to San Francisco would be ... , Mason '10, Sam '07, and me posing in front of the bridge. And no walk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  involved screenwriters on crack who have no judge of what movies the public ... and name calling. My year was no exception. When you enter staging for ... dolphin smuggling was a bit more covert. There was no way to sneak them in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  "no eres tú, soy yo." The translation is almost exact: "you are not you ... have no idea why. Also, perhaps one of my favorite Spanish words ever is ... the US (in New Jersey, no less!) for 21 years and Spain for a month and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  no idea what he looked like. Well, during my math test they had the ... ). Among them were "Do you take responsibility for the RickRoll? "No." "Do you take responsibility for lolCats?" "No." "Do you take

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  of Course 2 lab space. But no matter what it is you want to do, I ... 's no way to lead your life. If you lie your way into MIT (which I don ... that may not even be right for you, no one can stop you. But I can tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  popular at MIT or not? Yes? No? What do you think of when you think ... shallow and there's no such thing as hard majors and easy majors, it just ... preaching that. While there is no value in trying to determine an absolute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Tralza: Which [Harry Potter]book is your favorite? No! Don't make me choose ... to eating facilities on campus? Uhhh...no idea. Sorry. I can say that ... dining halls visit other dorms for food, but I have no idea how many of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet ... apparently I don’t move that much because they kept turning off.) No students ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  interpret it causally, we would need to assume that there was no time effect ... we had data from a neighboring state — like Pennsylvania — that had no ... , which had no such wage change; as such, the policy had no impact on

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

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  . ------------------------------------- NoOneInParticular wrote: "Would it be inappropriate / discouraged ... application deadline to be considered for admission?" No. Just make sure ... the first part. (My opinion is that no one video could ever capture the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  Sequence When you first start off in the class, you likely have no idea what ... who had basically no statistics knowledge and zero lab experience ... ) [REDACTED] An expired Peanut Butter Jar filled with Uraninite (No known

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  . Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... , and it’s also just a story about being a kid is hard and no one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  ask me about: Transfer admissions. I always say: No idea, I'm sorry ... chemical engineering at MIT and have no intention of choosing any other ... hear people say things like "I have no intention of attending any other

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  cared much. No, what won me over, I'm ashamed to say, was the building ... applicants take), with no regard to where the students are from. The result ... that. No doubt the extra expense of my top-notch education meant one more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  teacher who no longer teaches at my school, and, as of today, he had not ... ? Where do we go to see them?" No, admissions comments are destroyed after ... ?" Her letter should be fine, no worries

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

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  absolutely something you should tell us about. Finally, no, leaving the "Work ... most. Please do no do things just because you think they will look good to college admissions officers. There is no "right" package of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  a solid "yes" or "no," rurality is much more nuanced than that ... of public transportation, small class sizes, dirt roads, no major ... : These experiences, no matter how small they seem, bring something valuable

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  into our lounge with various seniors hoisting my limbs as I protested "NO NO NOOOOO". [annotation note="disclaimer: this was a playful edge case ... was absolutely no question that i was a tweaker"][/annotation] Or when I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  MOONstones! Moonstones? Like the gemstone? PROFESSOR: No no, those are ... Man in the Moon is here!” Behind them, no one other than Stu Schmill

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  during my PhD. Though I’m no longer religious, the most precious thing that ... ) grapple with the world as their whole selves, no matter how imperfectly, has ... genuine, and when they do the right thing even if no one’s watching

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025