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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -1) would be amended in a way that gives several options in places where there ... to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think ... Macroeconomics) are sometimes said to be among the least engaging classes in the

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

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  there's no need to fight your way in line and be worried at 60 that your ... in, in a way that feels most true to me.  - By the way, just make ... eating what they've just bought. But where I'm standing still seems to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest ... should be referred to from this point forward as HKim. Visiting with ... here. It's good to be back on campus!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  touched by the world and everything in it. It's absolutely shocking to be ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... stopped because classes were starting, because I got used to being inside

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit guidance.  While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  in the oven for about twenty minutes.  The original way to make these ... being able to cook for yourselves - cooking is easy!  It can involve ... will be many people around you who will be willing to help you figure

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  being able to write well is important. You will never encounter a ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... I wanted to be a librarian. vs. When I was eleven, my great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was ... brilliant professor and forced to think in new, uncomfortable ways. If you ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  , I thought it'd be fun to share my study tips on How to Finals ... ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... nice way to keep my mind off things like [annotation note="I see u, 6

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write ... campus. I found it at a bookshop I stopped by on my way home from a doctor ... . This one was gifted to me by mother, relatively recently. It features a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... tastes just as good as regular boba i want to be a designer, not a coder ... educational videos in the background is a good way to stop yourself from using

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... would just be too long but I’ll try to make a start here. There isn’t any ... serious of questions and most you will not be able to answer with a simple

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... are walking around campus, be sure to look around at all of MIT”s Public ... Just the other rainy spring day when I was making my way across

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  , Thirteen Ways of Looking. Another best-selling author, Claire Messud, came to ... ending, fall in love with a priest, and be inspired to write more of my own ... . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  region, and which areas might be affected by it.) Once, she created a ... to talk personally with the professors. I was so excited by everyone ... begin working in one lab by the end of IAP and, despite being a member of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's the strongest way to join two pieces of metal), there's a bit of an art ... a bike. Others wanted to be able to stick together metal for Mech ... funsies. We make our way to the rack of safety glasses and put them on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  't really be paying to see. After a quick "coming attractions" replay of the ... bullets are supposed to be instantly fatal and they fire them at each other ... to stage a coup of the vampire empire, which may actually be evil and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was ... to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty ... with simply by being swept up by psets and activities and other

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  much fun as it is being pompous and loathed by everybody, just don't do it. Nobody likes that guy. You don't want to be that guy, do you?) 4 ... A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006