Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... typical date between students at my high school or middle school was like, I ... such people in my social group at MIT. So my first reaction, when I read

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  is artificially cheaper there than at any area supermarket (not that I ... in the morning for job #1, due technically at the end of the workday ... makes sense now, because to succeed at MIT, you have got to self

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your ... -by-term breakdown of my lowest test scores at MIT. Fall 2003 -- I was inconsolable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  trouble thinking of anything. We were at a Conclave (sectional meeting) at ... forget what) that got us both called to the front for "punishment" at the ... upperclassmen at MIT were as helpful as I was. *grin* It was nice to finally meet

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  everything when I leave my nice dark cozy apartment at 6:45 AM. At least I did ... neuron. Different neurotransmitters bind to different receptors, so at ... "mushroom" heads. If you look back at my neuron pictures from last week, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... friends with a Swedish transvestite in aviator glasses? We ate lunch at ... picture on it. In the men's bathroom at my job, there are two separate areas

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

  Making Tracks

  

  destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have ... friends at the ARC lend you a helping hand. They insist that you'll do fine ... the morning and put you to bed at night, you might be singing a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." 3. Daniel, a kindred spirit admissions officer/blogger at the Johns Hopkins ... focus on just statistics and rankings - they are superficial at best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... Engineering lab at Havana's Universidad de Villanueva and become the Department ... rubber-tipped at the spokes. The tilting frames are also provided with an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interviewing at MIT this weekend. They were all really concerned about the ... snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston ... leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters ... if it was possible to defer enrollment at MIT. According to this site ... deferment. Deferrals are granted for any reason except full-time enrollment at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had ... anyone at first. Right before we got to where Walcott changes into Bemis ... " advice about life at MIT, only one tidbit of which I remember clearly. "If

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  ," to which I responded "SAME THING BABY!!" and laughed at her like a ... as how we look at it in reading and selection, there is absolutely no ... lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  at MIT. The way it works is, there are a few dorms with dining halls. I ... hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these ... 're tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  free Shakespeare production that they put on every summer down at Boston ... way, we stopped at The Wrap, a local Boston fast food chain which give ... , the class didn't prepare me at all to analyze this production, but I did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  the back cover, it said that Pinker was a professor at the Massachusetts ... get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... the performing arts at my high school. I made all 8 shows in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us ... introduce yourselves! We met lots of folks at CPW who were regular readers but who had never commented. If you don't mind, comment at least once - just

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  it makes me sad."]more recently[/annotation]). Despite having been at ... out and eat at some actual restaurants near MIT. Plus, Simmons Dining ... ="The name of the restaurant does not help at all..."]almost like a drug den

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... graduate, with at least 1 in each department along with various other rules ... class is located in the T Club Lounge, also known as a random room at the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025