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• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... Schmill Dean of Admssions Now is no time to despair! Lucky for us, we ... proper rejection - you just plain don't hear back. It sort of hurts, and is

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  software called "Mathematica" that is pretty much my savior. It's the ... is debuting something else, something new. They've created a search ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website ... community and beyond. All the sororities are part of MIT Panhel, which is our ... recruitment! Recruitment is a five day process, where you get to meet a lot of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  spacecrafts along their center axis, but this environment is very different and takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... system, which is the inner ear structure that creates a sense of balance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  marbles this year. You know that it is important that you take proper time ... is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind that you are ready to get down to business. So, your first step is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  is to assume the position of a manufacturing firm that has just been ... racing audience. The team is judged by experts from GM, Ford, and Daimler ... , and use of common parts. FSAE is a mostly student run organization that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  fall coat is red, and all my coziest sweaters and flannels are red, and i ... is all about transport. sending things here and there and metabolizing ... had a certain joie de vivre when interacting with people? yeah, that was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  to attend.   The evening started off by meeting Stacy De ... the hardest parts of directing is creating an emotional journey for the ... for the film is one of the most unique trailers I’ve ever seen (and one

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... the [party] button is hit, all the lights shut off, the blinds close ... in PA, DE, NJ Revise next year's application, both print and web

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  crazier, started calling himself Peeto de la Noche, and moved to 5th East ... 't want to miss the chance to go say hello to Peeto. You see, Peeto is ... side, which is not where people tend to concentrate, so we didn't see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... came into my life: urop.guide! It's a great little website created by two

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... is not dirty. If you've flown into Newark airport and driven away from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  bit of time working on Burton Conner's website, which is a true work of ... decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton conner...my god, is she a beauty. from b to shining c, burton conner offers

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this ... that I made faces like this is further evidence that not much has changed ... to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into concrete sidewalk grids, swollen with rain delicately infused with the brine

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the ... "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... prizes.[/annotation] Each game was advertised through "dormspam," which is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  DNA is negatively charged, it'll be loaded on the negative side of the ... purple color, is an indicator that tracks the progress of your gel ... get right the first few times.) What is this all good for? For starters

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  Boring Demonstration Ever. Fire is cool. Rockets are cool. Kids don't want ... kids. These kids are not extraordinary. What's extraordinary is that ... and Alka Seltzer is magic and ID badges are phones and pencils are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  has its own atmosphere and culture." In fact the website is awesome, so ... two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so ... the bat, I'll get it out of the way that Next House is far from the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006