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• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... practice that is meant to bring good luck which entails being the first to ... up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  You've got questions. I've got answers. Anonymous asks: "Why is it ... ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... your blog so I was just wondering what your major is and why you chose to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... project I've been working on for the past year is my baby, and I've done all ... larger sense, what I work on is constrained by what Morgan finds

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  current MIT students at the annual Trashion Show. The MIT Trashion Show is a ... , which are then modeled on our runway. Trashion was founded in 2011, is an ... . Cathy Z. from Technique sent me some photos as well. Here is an overview

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm+humid wave hitting me in the face already - the humidity is not so wonderful ... (genetics for the former; cancer, latter), 7.012 is an appealing choice for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... Carr wrote: "When reviewing applicants, obviously there is a certain point where it is clear that they are 'qualified' and could succeed as far

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  am simply only a vessel   and the worst part is, it happens all ... black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ... critic (I sometimes describe my cuisine experience to whoever is out for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is what they had to say! Short introductions!  Jonathan: My name is ... topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... carry me. But sometimes, the Tech Shuttle is so far from the nearest stop that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  variability depending upon who is responding So instead of giving a number, I ... pie is a zero.” The protests were immediate. I think there was a ... , “Great story David.  What is the point of all this?”  Perhaps there is no

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  . Here's all the stuff I made! The zeroth week of beginner class is partly ... that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... molten glass is and collecting some on the end of your pipe. Finally, we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long ... by Elena Ferrante, a book that feels inscrutable. It is about a girl in ... and too kind to be bound by such fleshly desires, but eventually it is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’t go to rowing practices. This means my UROP is my main organized ... ’m claiming this spring as a “research semester.” This is mostly an aspirational ... .03: Intermediate Microeconomics This is the last [annotation note="Humanities, Arts

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  is another lame play. Fefu and Her Friends (18k words). MIT Music and ... read the script as well as watch. The script itself is hilarious at times ... acted, which is a shame, really, since MTA's production breathed an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton-Conner. The other apartment is only ~20 steps away and always accessible, so I ... , and to go on long bike rides around Cambridge/Boston is absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  handshake A spit shower 🗣 and quick talk This is all I got

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019