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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  into the Monet room for too long and just stared. My favorite part is that it is just...pretty? It's not didactic, it's not "intellectual ... [caption id="attachment_104066" align="aligncenter" width="252"] This is the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ’re not used to not seeing the sun every day (yes looking at you tropical ... georg (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spiders_georg) is again the exception who ... "]blogger roommates[/annotation] which is very cool, but many of us only see the others

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  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 ... GOD. I JUST GOT AN E-MAIL FROM THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT. ALAN GUTH IS MY

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

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his ... case you are wondering, the admissions officer of whom I speak of is me. In the words of the incomparable sage of Long Beach, Snoop Dogg "He is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  deal with the fallout in terms of my mental health. This town is not a ... child abuse to the authorities is not recognized as a basic moral ... that we have a just God, who is the only Judge, and that it is not my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  not be disadvantaged in the admissions process because of their financial need. We are one of only nine schools in the U.S. that is need blind ... to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  opportunity to climb the mountain that is MIT. They hail from all 50 states, 65 ... number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... are not offering admission, then all I can remind you is that success is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a ... wrote about my kick-butt little brother. (Not saying that this is the ... ! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  way.") MIT is not really a great place for grade-grubbers or the easily ... . (Admittedly, this is not a long list compared to the number of supervisors in ... , headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  snowiness -- it's not showing up well in the thumbnail.) Notice the cheerful ... undergraduate program is ranked. Well, USNWR only ranks grad programs in the ... in the grad rankings is the best estimate I have. The undergraduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  while, he's my third-most played artist, and the exact year is not ... radio show at the campus station, WMBR. That show is now in its tenth year ... in the suite is just hugging everyone else in the room and singing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . But that's not what this post is about. This is an attempt to find the ...  midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... river is almost automatic. It’s a daily checkup. Maneuvering the crowds in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end ... been the same, excitement mixed with terror. MIT is terrific, in both ... different my life is now, how different I am. The stakes have been raised

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  semester without dropping the class, that is… Classes 6.036 - Intro to ... like the way the class is structured - essentially, I go to lecture ... of the benefits of getting sophomore standing is that you can get this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out ... ! The prefrosh were very excited, but Galileo was not impressed, as usual

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  not every state is equally comparable. So how can we do it? The state of ... in a body of evidence. One paper’s conclusion is not the “truth” in ... of treatment effect. The exclusion restriction is not directly testable

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... not your average lecture class.  2.670 is essentially a shop training

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... that might fit. But all I can think about is the things that don’t, and ... … all I can really think of is the places. The infinite. Killian Court

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  or different art. The game's incredibly fluid. I'm not sure I can ... the level, no game over. Celeste is hard, but never unfair. Challenging ... . The pixel art is juxtaposed with a more full art style that appears in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020