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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  , I make the trek across the river - it's refreshing to get off ... moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... 't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get ... questionable. For trade policy, you’d need to get governments from across the ... awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... to get in somewhere good. You don't have to be valedictorian, be in the ... really wanted to take. And where, you might ask, did I get in with these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  get rid of a stolen bike wouldn’t encourage someone to take their time ... . It’s nice that the commuter rail exists for getting to suburbs outside ... project to be whisked away by a full timer the moment I get stuck, that I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  winter sun (California) I was stuck inside, held hostage to what Google ... I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  thought for a while about if I wanted to attend. Pro: get to meet Randall ... knew that I wasn’t only going to get his signature: I was going to get ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  able to come up with methods and ways so that he doesn't get burned and ... closure to the situation, he will never get that. His father summarizes it ... never forces Finn and Flame Princess to get back together again. Instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  ’t want to eat the laundry detergent or get it in your eyes. Procedure ... -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• 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 ... to tell you. If there's anything I learned from MITblogging, it's that Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the

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

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  (although I did get around to reading some other books). And since I've been ... rooms! Walk around enough to get around without a map I have been to ... a club that you sink a lot of time into freshman year to get good, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  me to enter saying "I know you'll at least get 3rd place" and I ... native speaker to get any questions I had out of the way. I definitely owe ... the ability to communicate with about 1/5 of the population, and get

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and ... you'll get over it but you feel like you never will.[1] So if I can offer any advice it's just to emote. Let your psychological immune system

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  of getting one’s clothes muddy and missing a class, that they refuse to ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  had no idea that he was so distinguished. You get a little numb to ... 'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to ... ways I am able to support my spending habit. I have a theory that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... lot of writing, rewriting, deleting, and revising to get me to a point

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018