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• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  expensive in the rest of the world, with a median global income of $1,700 per ... financial realities are part of the reason why international spots are capped ... grants and loans. This is accomplished in part by aggressively recruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  for three hours per week. Non-MIT-related hobbies include "birding ... mission control, she realized that she wanted to be a part of that ... , Dick has been really helpful: I really feel like part of the lab. I give

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  – here’s the really good part – my professor of medieval literature. How ... each of the fifty terms per test, of which there were two, and spent ... faculty. Perhaps this is partly a by-product of the fact that I now spend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in Boston. (If you didn't know, Boston has approximately 10^24 colleges. Per m^2). She asked if I'd mind showing her around the 'tvte, as it seemed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS NEAR OR

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  backwards: 11,373; 10,440; 10,466; 10,549; 10,664. One guess per person. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit humanitarian project to put

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  with faculty outside of the classroom/lab, our council pays up to $25 per

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• 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 the next 2 days, which you math geniuses out there should know works out to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice cream. I'm not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  Today, MIT alum Pat Antaki '84 will compete in the Olympics. He will compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race down a pure ice track head first at 80 miles per hour. Since Antaki lives

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

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  Chandresh asked: Do [MIT] professors take courses? Professors and staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  that I am an [annotation note='per the registrar, the class of 2021 has 9 ... ='i also was taking this in part to fulfill a requirement for a course 6 (cs ... is also a part of this hi cj"]ESP[/annotation] assigns students into

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  speaking English. I was also told that in some parts of Andorra, Catalan is ... English, per the instructions of the GTL program and the instructors at the ... points of confusion. But since the school was part of the Andorran system

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  , Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Raphael

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  conveniently labeled. Ta-da! The laundry room. Not much to say here, really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help ... . So having a 700 or an 800 on any test doesn't really help you per se ... there may be more parts (like this DVD) that don't get seen because they

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  However, Random had the highest response per capita, with 14% of all Random residents responding to the poll. New Vassar had the lowest response per ... with 0 roommates. Random is mostly singles, with just a few doubles per

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  hours per week? (Yes – by taking [annotation note="The Product Engineering ... include them, I include all of them.) Cap the number of units per semester ... four and a half classes per semester, which is (usually) a reasonable

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023