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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  same dilemma. On MIT’s admissions website, we claim that “MIT is one of ... not get any sleep, which is probably even worse than those other things ... skeptics out there), I can’t say whether or not MIT is unique in its

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• 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 ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country

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

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... Visits D- Man: Okay, the scheduler is currently out of her office, but I ... in the middle of composing a follow-up e-mail. Phew. Definitely not a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  .” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one ... can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you ... the deep and dark place that is my Inbox. Please keep your hands and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... passive, detached manner the point after which it is too late to ask for ... forgetting what day it is eating because you want to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  Commencement, the ring is flipped over so that the beaver is sitting on the world. Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after ... forward in leaps and bounds. Then we considered the elephant. He is wise

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  meetings working on the MURJ website updating the Medlinks website ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ... UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  on what the project goal is. Looking at the website of one ... was a little confused. Why not just “leadership?” Is this a leadership ... leader, chats up a student at the GEL Career Fair boothThe Career Fair is

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  philosophy behind cloud computing. Cloud computing is the means by which data is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  twelve different authority figures telling us not to kill the kids and a ... is because every Virgin Megastore in the Eastern United States is closing or has shut down. The Miami location closed not two weeks after

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the ... the incongruity above. Here, Minerva is cast not so much as a university for Schrödinger's student, who simultaneously is and is not one of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  Ok, so long story short (I'll blog the whole thing later), I use firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... very well, which is why I told Firefox to just remember it. It worked

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Music Man is my least favorite musical ever. The ... subject. This entry is gonna be mostly pictures. So, like the good traveler ... their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  software called "Mathematica" that is pretty much my savior. It's the ... search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... can not do this. Wolfram Alpha is so much beyond Google in terms of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... mechanical engineers love the math and physics behind it all, not everybody has ... with shop tools, a refresher never hurts. Next semester is 2.007, the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... , when the point of having all these quirky symbols is to defy tradition ... describe in the picture, is because the moon was in the half-moon phase when

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , and I am nothing if not Serious - is Admissions Counselor for Web ... , perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that ... the digital ooze, my job is to help make the Internet go for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  , I know). This is the class website; don't worry if you don ... . It was not for anything XFair-related. "reg day meeting" In the ... -day schedules! The math department is located in Building 2. In my previous three

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think about when I teach about proof. I don’t know which is stranger: the way ... is also one of the things I think about when I think about teaching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted Open thread for denied students.

  

  Admitting such a small percentage of the applicant pool means that we unfortunately have to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008