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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... coolest people on campus, moved up to the top two or three when she showed ... Close. Caroline was totally unable to go for some reason such as sickness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  listen to others’ stories is on NPR’s “This I Believe” series and NPR ... imagine what story you would tell to StoryCorps. Don’t exaggerate on your ... . You’ve probably got important reasons for wanting to transfer. My

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate ... dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  you even weighed in with clever suggested names for my soon-to-be-born son. (YES, WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR HIM & NO; WE AREN'T GOING TO NAME ... of 2010" threads. It would have been easy for you to post comments that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... all. Do not feel that you need to "clean up" your existing blog for us

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... opportunity to go on that trip, and to help make connections and friendships ... classy!! It is company policy for most companies (I think) to provide

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for ... - designed to serve as a starting point for students with big ideas (or small ... . Their goal is to reprocess used vegetable oil from the dining halls on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  on the Admissions site. It's true that we encourage our bloggers to ... credibility. But allowing the blogs to become a full-on soapbox is a slippery ... senate. Since students have so much say as to what goes on, it's important

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad ... companies might in some cases have an obligation to experiment on their users ... little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to ... for the Visit Team that I sit on. I organized a tour guide program at my ... like, quite frankly, I'm upset that I didn't apply to MIT for undergrad

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... huge contingent of MIT students tutor, both here on campus (for our ... . We teach classes on topics of our choice to middle and high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in ... to cross the street because the sidewalk ended on the side i had been on initially. this doesn't mean that the city was made for driving

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At ... sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... .  Like most stereotypes, this is not wholly accurate.  For example, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close to 40 hours on 031 we did. This class CONSUMED our lives last semester ... pages of the comic here, but sign up for their newsletter to get the full

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... all worked out okay. I’m closing comments on this blog post to ... admitted students. Answers to frequently asked questions for waitlisted

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

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  addition to working with students on the MIT campus I also attended several ... (The Summer Update Edition!) Greetings to all! Can you feel that ... 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out ... on 35 mm projection for the Spirited Away screening that weekend and ... brief guide to 35 mm film projection for LSC! What is 35 mm film? Two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022