Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  from rank-order voting to instant runoff voting to approval voting to ... the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... , wonderful as it is, is so secondary.  And it's all about the primary sources

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  to play today? You guessed it... Admissions: You Make The Call. So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis was voted to be the most ... from high school was voted "Most likely to prove the Riemann Zeta ... 're going to adopt it for the incoming class of 2012. No no, not really. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  spread it around to help me out, it's http ... sheets of paper and turn it over to the judgment of complete strangers. And ... college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  what it means? What do I want to do after I graduate? How do other ... ? Am I just bad at managing my time? Is it even possible to achieve the ... . And I don't know why it took until coming here to realize that I'm my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  the dinosaurs). After fighting two world wars over it, in 1946, the ... Robert Weinberg (Bio). After being introduced to our mascots, Rabbi Fisher ... ’m trying my best to explain this, but it’s quite clear there was some fuzzy

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last ... submit it to HR (it always takes me forever - I'm not good at writing about

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  you want to film. Format it to look like the scripts you see online, so ... . Watch it again, this time trying to look at it with fresh eyes. Hope you don’t hate it now that you’ve taken the time to export it. 31. You

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... sort it (so you would return 2, 3, 4, 14, 17,19), your ability to do this ... campaigned to become president. Hillary won the popular vote, earning roughly 2

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy ... Support and Equality) Food Insecurity Group creating ways to tackle it ... each meal of the week. It helps to be able to overlap the same

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  continue to be EC after we are gone. I believe that this illustrates an ... Job! to my friends who were involved in it, but the reason I bring it up ... thinking of alums, there's Matt, who was no slouch himself when it came to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it is currently 2025. i'd firstly like to say that i ACTUALLY started it in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingTo ... outside, and to my horror, it was sunny. Worse, it was warm. Twenty degrees ... . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... There are many like it, but this one is mine. My spork has been high

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  late nights psetting.  It wasn't unusual for us to spend more time ... This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... . Then it led to going across the oceans. And, then it was "OK, let's go ... . To me it, it just seems natural that we've looked around here and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  to help me choose. Huzzah! This is an exercise in what it's like to be ... : Relevant to what I want to learn. It's a new class which tends to be a lot ... take a music class and this seems close to one, so. Cons: It's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  'm not sure if it's possible to prevent that from happening, but even if it ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose ... its own fruit tasting party, with freeze-dried miracle fruit pulp pills ... to compare it to flavored vinegar but realized that my teeth would be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad ... are probably like "oh my lord, Boston is freezing" and to that I say, as ... gained the Freshman Negative Five when I came to MIT. Join a club sport! It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006