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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... doing but which can also eat your time. On top of all this, despite our ... I received the following question on tumblr the other day:  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims ... , the bulk of the time is spent discussing our opinions on the story as a ... direction. We are only on chapter two of Crónica de una muerte anunciada and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... .g. experience on a sports team), and creativity (e.g. mastery of an instrument ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... orientation hosts who were in charge of running “ice breakers” on ... ‘12 and I were the only prefrosh to go on the tour of the dorm. It

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  the size of the font on your blog for comfortable reading or better ... concept of Hall Rush or not may depend on how long you've been reading this ... , it considers itself deprived on less than 8.5 hours per night, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  completely solo). And on top of just being injured, handling everything on my ... to bear the weight of a tough situation, even on only one leg. Ask for ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo of ... fine. I was organized, turning things in on time, attending most of my ... the semester, I had spent a lot of time and energy on making sure the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  confirmation that EC is the next dorm on the list for renovations. the rest of ... . one of the things i liked about the meeting was how it was focused on ... students worked on historical research projects about many aspects of ec

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  you can sit and watch the stars.  Five of us went to follow him on a ... got on our way to our separate adventures. My group of Cars 3 and 4 ... closing in on 2pm. After falling into and out of snow and starting to lose

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... 's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More ... each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... water”). The Mosquito Coast on the east side of Nicaragua/Honduras is ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  culture of cheesemaking Ariel White from Political Science on voting in an age of mass incarceration Eugenie Brinkema from Literature on the aesthetic of horror Joshua Angrist from Economics on ridesharing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  voracious reader, so I snuck it out of her room and read it. And loved it. On ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you

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

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  on crowdsourcing): "Most of the ideas must come from experts ... of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... talking to each other. Prof. Foley went on to say that 1/7 of the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  staff from a wide variety of programs on a non-regular basis to keep ... tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... on the arts! We'll be highlighting anything and everything art

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... Sometimes MIT catches on fire. Ok, maybe not actually, but sometimes MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  did an incredible job of processing things well beyond the deadline. On behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just ... I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  skin slowly slipping against the shape of the world and holding on just ... and sit on some rock of the mountain and pull out your sandwich and ... the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your online application on or before January 3. If you are applying on paper, have the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  the comments of this entry. On Thursday, I'll be going through the ... should you should click the final "submit" button of your online application on or before January 1. If you are applying on paper, have the Post

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006