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• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags ... , someone else called me to help wrestle for fake money. I came to help and ... spaces at MIT, and that those spaces hold room for me to be and to grow. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... combination! Sounds like the perfect training for the next big Internet startup ... last calendar year, my passion for exploring the far-reaching ends of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  intelligence. Why don’t you go for someone like ‘James’,” my brother Kyler once ... Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It ... begged his parents for a lab so he could do his own experiments. He adored

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me ... grades are very important, so keep working hard!) as well as a text box for ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me ... grades are very important, so keep working hard!) as well as a text box for ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  . Democracy as we have known it for more than two hundred years is the fruit of ... national consciousness of the responsibility for providing education to all ... recognize and provide opportunities for unusual interests and aptitudes; in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen ... keeps track of funny quotes. Two years ago when I was in South Caicos for ... gems as, "Can I use your conditioner for my face?", "I cook with MY

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it ... ’t built for it. My dorm, Burton Connor, has no AC, and outlaws window ACs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and ... studying for finals, I cooked dinner instead today. =p (it didn't really ... . Garnish with fresh thyme, and add roast beef for a yummy meal! (you can add

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  your peers if you haven't already, and keep watching for things since the portal gets updated for new information (if it haven't already ... easy for awhile. Spend some time with your parents, go out to a movie

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  provided me, and I’d go to McDonalds for the Wi-Fi, where I would learn all ... Acceptance Rate.” This was the case for me. I would sit there, when I had free ... middle of the hell that is the wait for decisions, I really suggest to not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  Karvinen (TsK) Antaki, who was born in and will compete for Lebanon, lived

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now ... suggestions for me? A: I know that the application process can be really nerve ... (Who we call Educational Counselors or ECs for short), share more

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  takes me for a ride I smile at the TA, I pray I'll be alright The exam is on my side and takes me for a ride I smile at the TA, I pray I'll be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4 ... end, Andy won 7-6, 6-2 (and he later beat James Blake for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  across the street to the media lab, where the DATA FOR BLACK LIVES ... policing and criminal risk assessment. there's a critical need for ethics and accountability in data science, and a "bill of rights for data" so that everyday

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  are practically sporting events, with grown men jockeying for position ... I did most of the baking for my family, my mom actually did most of ... plan 2 dishes per week. I always make extra so that I have dinner for the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will ... weeks before January 1 working on regular action applications for other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by ... , who also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story. It's been a year since I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011