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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow ... I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it ... understand when I say “Hi I’m [Debbie], my major is [undecided, but

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  city, my dog, my friends... So I googled for the email addresses of some ... the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon as the solstice came around"]summer!!![/annotation]Here's what I'm up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you ... that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... immediately (I’ll attempt to help with this soon). The worst essays are surely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... that I've been taking through the Student Art Association has rekindled

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  Questions about class plans Nehalita asked about class plans, and I ... four classes per term for eight terms and it will almost certainly come out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... third day of class and I thought I'd show you a bit of what I've been up ... -da! (Oh, all photos in this entry are courtesy of my Mac's webcam since I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry, when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the ... . So, I'm often asked, what do you do when you're not reading ... professional conferences. As you've read, Ben and I have done a couple already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with ... Mass Tech made my list. I actually hadn’t even thought about applying to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such ... student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  outside of class time per week, and to that I say, desk time is pset time ... note="alternatively: horrendous"]challenging.[/annotation] Because I switched majors, I'm currently taking both the course 16 sophomore core

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  class I spent maybe 12 hours outside of class per week doing just to meet ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  Since Fall 2018, I've lived at WILG, an independent living group at ... know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... days are rougher than others, and more often than not I find myself ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  What I've noticed is that being an Admissions Blogger has turned me into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of some commenters, I will have some integration bee sample problems up tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  Stata Center for lunch. 3:32 PM: Checks email and surfs the Web (I ... So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the ... recent events, though, these cool projects seem kind of...useless. I look

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020