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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... the second. This shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into ... columns to maximize the amount of space used. Color coded headings also help

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float ... judgmental about trivializing worries about what to make of your life, how to ... of making it to the end of the day alive is the mere surface of worry

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  end of the semester but not necessarily ready to solve any problem you ... going to bed is better than continuing to study? When will the benefits of ... and at some point you should just go to bed. I ask all of you to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  bandied about. To me there are few concepts more sacred than that of ... witnessed many of you struggle to make sense of the pain and disappointment of ... respecting points of view that were counter to your own personal philosophies

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents ... wandering around trying to process the vast, VAST array of poster titles ... was important. So there! I went through waves of vertigo. I went to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via ... in the MCU (and is from the Boston suburb of Sudbury), seemed to ... , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... another important point to mention: MIT Dean of Admissions, Stu Schmill will be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  was delivered to the front lawn of MIT Fraternity house Chi Phi on the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome ... , both class of MIT '09, while friends prepared to open fire. The brothers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  sense to use the Renaissance as my primary costuming inspiration. Of ... Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween ... plumes make everything cooler. This particular photo was taken by some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date ... , leading to the military coup of 1980. Living through these times, Acemoglu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  of those ways is to attend MIT. Another one of those ways is to visit ... ): You'll say hi to the friendly receptionist and then sit down, in one of ... to see the hustle and bustle of MIT. Weekends are a special case, you

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it ... for the rest of the day; I didn’t have much to do. For dinner, I eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the ... you...I should probably get back to work. My last calc midterm of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the ... fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of unsolved puzzles to work through.   Of course, we also solved many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  desperately to lower the temperature of my face. No luck. I fiddled with the ... On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique opportunity to mortify their loved ones. Three student performance groups - the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... . Most of the time, the issue was due to my own ineptitude, but the fact ... ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... contribute to the immunity of the nematode. Translated into laboratory terms on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest ... of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The ... supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021