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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First ... interested in) but definitely stressful, when it's the first semester of senior ... with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  . The whole campus is sprinting towards "end-of-semester", and it ... from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... ; Bane of my existence, and I know I’m not alone. For 8.01 – the intro

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson is the first artist to have five top ten singles from the same album (courtesy Mitra). You all left a lot of lovely ... undergraduates, and single streak of gray hair all combine to make pretty much the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... section of a department store. So, the most inevitable thing has happened over the course of the last few years. I’ve accumulated a wide range of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  , I'm only including this one because it was the first question asked of ... , despite the worry and uncertainty going around our class Facebook page ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... large part of our job is knowing all the ins and outs of admissions so that we can field all of the questions we get. Every time somebody

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  class I've taken at MIT) about the history and culture of francophone ... group that focuses on bringing together all members of the MIT community ... friend you wouldn't have met otherwise. A big part of the LCE's mission is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  , maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat ... ."]September first.[/annotation] I’m kind of surprised that this has worked for me. I ... think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  recollections from this week as a whole, the first and foremost being that I never ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how ... enjoy all of the excitement when we get an answer right (which happens ... 've got this awesome little command and control center in the corner of our

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  the wired brain of some android. So, of course, I did what any MIT ... years at MIT, I was sure of it. I just needed to learn Linux first ... together the guts of a robot, anticipating the moment when a dozen blinking

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces ... more robust measurements like counting the number of holes in the shape ... analytic things). Tristan S. '23: I'm a 2023 graduate of the math and music

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  pages 28-35, which describes how —  in the opinion of MIT, Stanford, IBM ... as ‘friend-of-the-court’ —  is filed by entities not themselves parties ... of many factors in admissions. The joint academic/industry brief

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death ... whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... this somewhere near the top of my list. I am so, so, so, so excited. I ... together over the summer, and it's quickly become one of my favorite

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  miles "around" Central Park -- technically, I ran up and down the whole East side of the park, along 5th Avenue. The park is rectangle that is 0 ... On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  first week of the summer program, I reconnected with my old roommate ... management, DEI issues, sexual assault and harassment.  After the first day of ... .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  I saw the Milky Way for the first time a couple of summers ago, I ... major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  and journeyed down the five flights of New House stairs because MITSO ... : MITSO and Concert Choir concerts are free for "members of the MIT ... -and-dance interludes. There was a whole English "semi-opera" genre, with the now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013