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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a ... the decision that we make on an application, that decision should not

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl ... seemed like we tried everything to get the reaction to happen on both sides

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... pictured above.) 2.) Notice how the first page says "Nathasha, help me," on

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... "Haus". The oldest dorm on campus. Very accepting of alternative

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Some people[1] say that you need to seriously rethink your life when your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... stuff (cruft) at MIT; that wonderful place is known on these hallowed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  independent study. Work began on February 6: Daniel L. '12 writing lyrics ... Seminar in Music, where we wrote a 20-page research paper on a field of our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  on the tip of my tongue at the time. That was an absolutely stupid ... make me no less of a manly man, I happened to have two stuffed animals on

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  bridges on the site model. (Still in good spirits, apparently!) [5:46 AM ... started on the drawings… [9:08 AM] Bridge…done… drawing done… time to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  2002. Gillespie is also a new television star, playing himself on the ... 's offer to do a gap year(s) to focus on his racing career, looking to return

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  to work as a third rider on the MIT ambulance. Basically, anyone who's CPR-certified can be a third rider on the MIT ambulance - so any of you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  course numbers evolved. More on each major: Class of 2013 Major Advising ... Auroux is on leave at UC Berkeley now, and the froshies this year didn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  companies (The Nora and Underground Railway Theater), is located on Mass Ave ... simply because the story is indeed based on Ms. De Cari's own experience at

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  , Dordy '12, Cathy '10, and I embarked on an adventure that would change the ... . But more on igloos later. We ended up at a small French restaurant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  this nice little video I've made showing you how to log on to MIT ... lists on MIT's end has to happen) you'll start getting your MIT e-mail in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  station on the Red Line at "Kendall Square/MIT." The routes the T covers ... ) and commuter rail trains (costs vary depending on distance). The map for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... they tell their ECs about the experiences they are having on campus. The

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  more information on the Davidson Fellows scholarship, or to download an ... . Daniel's work, titled "Two Papers on the Theory of Partitions," makes a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  's something you should know. One of the questions that kept on popping up over ... 're not trying to bribe you. We're welcoming you to MIT. On Saturday, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  the money stopped. I was working on psets, studying, figuring out my way ... 's another quick, relatively low time commitment (depending on the class) way

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  's performance of Leocadia. Photocredit / Hayden Taylor ARTALK will focus on the ... creativity and expression. A hands-on approach allows what they learn in their

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008