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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  game of life on the lowest difficulty setting there is. Other fortune ... and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  of break. (Well, initially, I said "no academic work but I'll start on research", but of course I didn't start on research either.) So on Friday ... ="59152" /] On our return, I did several loads of laundry and went to bed with that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  you haven't yet done so, you must click the "Submit" button on your EA ... that as of last night, more than half of the applicants have already ... mailed materials (e.g. recommendations, etc.) time to show up on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  out free cookies on the first day of classes every term. That was all I ... DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  are on the far right, I'm sort of hidden in the back.) Well, now that ... with another area of your choice, it's called 2A), I live in Next House (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  , appealing is subjective and ultimately depends on the values of the maker and ... on a number of factors, and the capability of one is relative to the ... saves a lot of time spent on the registration website or that problem set

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  look around at the group of people who were still working on this after ... on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  traditions of running on our lunch breaks, running three laps around Killian ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... submit a proposal beyond "lying on the beach," but often little more is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  , on to the point. By now, I suspect that a lot of my readers are ... "macrocommunity". I've written a number of entries on the importance of ... order of preference. Each freshman is assigned a "temp" room based on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course ... administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing ... lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  -and-a-half room apartment on the northern tip of Cambridge, not too far from MIT ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... . She: plays games (as with Emma S. '16) keeps a tight grip on her

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  paceline through town on the wheels of Zack U. and Ben W. (both Chemical ... on that: the wind proved to be more of an enemy than the gradient. Jen ... and I spent much of the ride hammering hard on the front for five minute

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  . :) He made an appearance on the side of the Green Building during Hall ... decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... , Sarah '08 had a lot of fun climbing them. Getting up was one thing, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a career; others had their sights on the free goodies (ranging from t ... upperclassmen and five employees of Ethicon Endo-surgery, a medical devices

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... , which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Magnificient Seven) The Olympic Spirit On the Esplanade (along the banks of the ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... ceiling of Symphony Hall. We sat at the same table as lovebirds Thomas '05

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... done a great job documenting Professor Schrock's Nobel prize. On Monday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005