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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  Sunflower, an incubation bed that can be used in developing countries to ... Now that it's break, I finally have time to sit down and actually write about everything that's happened to me this semester. As I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The ... a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife?” Me: * And then I went back to reading my Martha Stewart Living

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn't be happier ... . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... the morning. If you haven't been to college yet, that might seem like a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  -gritty, and so if you don't learn everything, you could be screwed. I went to ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... which are probably consumed by watching for your friendly neighborhood

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  don't know what to do." "They seem to be doing something right, maybe ... class is meant to be hard, shouldn't I be okay? Shouldn't I be satisfied ... will always linger. I can't fit myself into the boxes that seem to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  't really big in that sort of stuff. Rather than be intimidated, I took this as a really cool thing. Being at MIT meant that I was going to school ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... night's sleep in three days. DID YOU KNOW? Building 66, designed by MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be ... control. As Dan's story shows, some things that seem bad turn out to be a blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a

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

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  you'd be surprised by what happens. III. As I write this entry, I can ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... moment to notice the Green Building, standing taller than any other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... for summer research programs my GPA is too low for me to be accepted ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN!!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  seeing Prof. Diaz talk without being interrupted by Stephen Colbert, check ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... great opportunity to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT ... , there are dozens of alumni-hosted events going on; it should be pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  are expected to be influenced by MIT's approach. Read the full story at ... nation to take the step of fusing molecular and cellular bioscience with engineering to create a new biological engineering discipline. Many other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  to him when he came by. We chatted at length about MIT, his current ... be applying to MIT this year. At the end of June I had the opportunity to be on-location in New York City with an independent movie directed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  approach to hamentashen should be a bit interesting. How does a single cell ... to fold into a hamentashen. Hamentashen can never be folded into a ... 8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on ... This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role ... Ruth. Then, on the way back from dinner, we were discussing Sam, Mitra ... checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  going to code in Johnson Ice Rink surrounded by a million other people, so ... taught me how to use Github, which I'd always been so confused by in ... ;skip_registered_account_check=true In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023