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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  on who should be the next President of the United States, and there are ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks ... averaged 2-4 hours of sleep after that until finals week. Then I ran away and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  southwest force on the stern, and the coefficient of friction of the seaweed ... . After that, I was working on my 2.001 pset, which thankfully didn’t cover ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... % honest: MIT wasn’t even on my huge list of schools I was considering before

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... of going on Reddit. A short time warp later. 11:00am Fishing For ... of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I ... help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... "Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems." This class is hard on me not because the ... amounts of time. Since some people did well on the exam, their exam scores

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... Student Center where they were showing a livestream of a One-on-One with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  on the dry side. Instead of using a rice cooker, I was pan-frying the ... the ingredients clearly depends on the size of your rice cooker, so take ... juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa. This blog will focus on the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math ... top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter:  “a dilemma I

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled ... , on to very old pictures: The last lecture of 3.091 is pretty famous ... suck, so I suggest you check out the photos on page 11 of this issue of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... , depending on the purpose. For example, Student Financial Services will use your legal name and the Office of the First Year may use your preferred
• Blog / About Decisions

  BREAKING NEWS! Find out about your life of pi

  

  up on the banks of the Charles River. It seems that famed tiger ... on Thursday, March 14, beginning at 6:28 PM ET.  When decisions

  • by Richard Parker
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  waitlisted applicants. A brief overview: Of the 629 students currently on the waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her ... aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex ... band." So even if MIT "wins," she might not be MIT Class of 2010 after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in ... library for Course 14: Economics, Course 15: Sloan School of Management

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006