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• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and ... numbers is a little odd [27% acceptance rate females, 12% males], and I find ... . This is not an accusation or an excuse for myself, but merely a curious

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  of pranks. Not all pranks are hacks. Not all hacking is pulling hacks, either - a lot of hacking is simply exploration, much as a lot of computer hacking is exploring the hidden ins and outs of computer systems and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  Hi everyone. I'm so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I ... planned). I think you can call next week as well. The number to call is 617 ... call? Usually the answer to this is no. Under the circumstances, we are

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  my window is 15 stories up and falling out is not up there on my list ... bad ones, but is there a general teaching "style" that most professors have? Do you have to do p-sets for Biology classes and if not, what is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  love JP Licks (Actually, I just love ice cream.) JP Licks is known for ... office party with my friend, Evelyn. Evelyn, '07 - Course VI-2, is working ... of the biggest events I'm looking forward to is JULY FOURTH! Boston is

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , the so-called man behind the Big Dig. The Big Dig is one of the largest ... oversimplification). This course is taught by James Aloisi, former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation and East Boston native. Which is really awesome

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  first thing that comes to mind is book smarts, and that's what I ... contrary, I am quite smart, because everyone at MIT is quite smart. No ... ” friend is a weird mental transition, and I think most of us instinctually

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  sophomore year is the worst, but it's also kinda the year class-wise, at least ... is having! This will be nothing too crazy, but it is for sure something ... excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress was hot so i tipped her extra”    my pain is a stone fruit whose ... out in an office where everyone else is a man, including one who “loves

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... is (vaguely) the dimension of what you're considering."] possible ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  whatever I want, however I want. Apparently, 'immense freedom' is just slang ... is a fantasy TTRPG with...an incredible amount of rules and complexity ... first episode is so, so good. Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - the direct

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  should be nowhere near grant-writing or transcribing or anything that is ... interview prep. All of this is silly. Do not be like me. I’m not saying you ... analyst” starting in October, but it is good to explore professional

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their ... important when they are applying to us. Additionally, our admissions office is ... reviewing applications, our first duty is to try to understand the world in

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  jacket and a waterproof backpack this year, so rain is something i no ... note="kevin is a frosh in 2E - my hall - and is a precious boy. in fact, my hall is quite weeb and a significant number of people have taken at

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... large sums of money are donated or significant reorganization is taking ... large sums of money have significant visions for what their money is

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS ... thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. You can ... +s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of ... a post. What follows is a series of lists, sentences, and paragraphs ... album, but summer is not for feeling feels. Summer is for banging bangers

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  : There is a good chance you’ve heard about this already, since a lot of people are talking about it. There is an article in The Tech regarding its ... the plan more depth. As I mentioned, there is an enormous amount of talk

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  classes can't be special. My astrophysics class is, for example, very useful ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I ... all, his last name is an anagram of h-bar. Second of all, he is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  bit too attractive!" (Darn right.) "Is (girl's name I can't quite ... structure*** The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. In other words, the poem is broken up into four sections: the first three have four lines of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011