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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  ) Faneuil Hall is both a reminder of Boston’s glorious revolutionary past and ... -goers. Faneuil Hall is also beauitful in the winter, with lights, music, and a ... circus acts. My favorite performer is a 10-year old boy who sings and plays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  email. It's Wednesday now. On my floor is a suitcase containing a suit ... that it favors the latter sort of lifestyle because it is a coming ... former, because it is a story about the immigrant experience and using

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  conceived. Its purpose is “to promote mental health and community engagement ... events.” That is the fancy constitutional definition. Simply put, Escape MIT is for the hosed students who want to “burst the MIT bubble,” that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It's the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due - although, at this point, "night" is probably the wrong word, since the sky is ... option is not mutually exclusive with (1), (2), or (3)] (2) and (3) are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  exam at MIT? please.) and I informed him that "um, yes. 8.012 is ... part is a lie. I do not actually have Alan Guth's home address. However ... interest in astrophysics, which is probably a large part of the reason I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find ... MIT students is that (generally speaking) they are good stewards of ... or 40 years. It is more likely that you will have a bunch of different

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  This is going to be my third CPW, and all I can tell you that you ... do that?!), Alvin '13 can make Ugandan goat dishes, and this is what ... maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... definition of standard deviation is horrifically incomprehensible in standard ... less I'm sure of what a vector is. Right now, my internal definition of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just ... Claus, Miley Cirus......, it really doesn't matter who is writing out the ... . _________________________________ Q: I have a question about one of the short answer questions. There is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  will respect their time. So whether your application deadline is about a ... write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  unacceptably tragic, especially at an institution where “sleep is like currency ... Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven cardinal sins. 2. Sleep is a member of the set . Therefore, sleep is a sin. 3

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of ... blogged for AN ENTIRE MONTH. tsk tsk. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Truth is, I ... 'mon, no pain = no gain, right? :D ("this is ten percent luck, twenty

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn ... , whatever it is, it probably involves most of the floor's help. It was neat ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  freshman. This semester is my last hurrah. While my total number of units ... . This is a great class, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone with an ... spike (because you've found it, the probability that the particle is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... seemed like fun. Shooting is a useful skill, no experience was necessary, MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... things I think about coming to college is complete freedom in learning to ... is that you should not attempt to learn everything there is to biology

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is simply a formality. Oh, and sleeping is overrated. Here's just a quick ... over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  river to Boston, which is about 1/4 mile away. And it's pretty tempting to ... Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  is a good topic for the "completely option" essay about something you ... project there, is that too trivial to be even considered at MIT? Would it ... to send pictures, is it okay to send pictures after the application has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... college admissions process is spooky and mystical, presided over by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005