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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... 't you guys a tech school? What are you doing here?!" Ahem. Engineers can debate, too! We attend several conferences in a year - this year, we had 5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... like the Harry Potter phenomenon now. Harry Potter is a massive mass market success at a time when all of our conversations are focusing on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to college, a lack of additional colleges having been built, students taking ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a ... making 2 cakes, cupcakes, and a giant cookie. Everything is vegan and he ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the ... ’s main project, "Dynamic Currency Conversion," a system that

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  , the Story Wall just looks like, uh, a wall. It’s an approximately 25 ... entrance. But it turns out that you can do quite a lot of things with ... MIT Borderline. Borderline is a student-run club (which Danny and Allan

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  .  EmbroideryI started this piece last spring semester thinking it would take a couple of days and a maximum of 20 hours. I was off by a factor of ~2.5. I ... (cheesy, I know) hence the attempted stitching of a fingerprint around the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Campus courtyard grill. A traditional email to EC residents confirmed that ... are high on my favorite burger list (and trust me, I am almost a local ... second CPW, as an EC resident, when a friend with a rainbow-colored beard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... only a few days left before we go into selection ... . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party ... derived during a lecture and my brain almost popped It's been four years since I've written a blog entry here, which seems ridiculous but that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... ="" align="alignnone" width="267"] for reference, a lemming[/caption] My ... which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... of my Hot Admissions Takes right now, anyway; my brain is plagued by a ... .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... mahal kita. It’s neat that kita is a pronoun that doesn’t just indicate ... ’t think I’ve seen a pronoun like this in other languages. And it’s kinda

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  . It’s a daunting task, as the systems we’re designing are underspecified and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... and lots and lots of talking. Most of my classes this semester devote a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  ’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open. It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... wearing a red dress with white polka dots to match her red (pink?) hair. She

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015