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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... friends for advice. they are smart people and often know what to do ... schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  People often seem to think that going to an elite school ... undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently undergrads are less fun ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  on one of our psets, which refers to "Professor Alan Guth," father of ... 's what I like to see on a problem set. :) ... .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  were set on our way to make some yo-yos. We could have made a simple yo ... Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT ... Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  was waiting for someone to come breathe that rare air with her, and when ... on Friday night and still get up on Saturday morning ready for the ... feels to be loved and taught and to have a sounding board for life, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go ... boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher ... morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to ... an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the ... coffee, I made a mental plan for my busy CPW Saturday. I needed to shower

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so ... archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA ... to waste. We are all better for having read and heard your stories. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  every year. Unfortunately, we’re very limited to how many students we can ... institute, or community college may apply for transfer admission. If you are in your first year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... independent college admissions counselors. It was a great opportunity for me to ... I'll probably never have the opportunity to visit. For the counselors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  down on myself for that. Even though I went to lecture every day, I ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one ... , and it'll be up to you to decide what goes on there. If at the end you ... . For somebody who doesn't live on campus, like you prefrosh, it's very

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... characteristic. What sort of experiment would you design to find out Y?" For an ... allowed to have notecards for 18.01. We were supposed to memorize all the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be ... opened my eyes to creative places to tap into for inspiration, and I became ... primarily for freshmen. I think I’m more of a bottom-up learner that tries to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it ... --but never surrender, on paint of death. For our fashion-forward frosh: never ... better in jello"? Now's your chance to prove yourself on the field of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field ... was soon whisked away on an airplane to land in DC. I'm working at a ... up talking to for a bit about how he became interested in jewelry

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost ... and Conflict in the Middle East. My paper was on the relationship ... something to do with codes. Thursday: 9.71 midterm. I was pretty happy about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... of statistics with enough depth for you to test out. Second, advanced ... sound dumb to some people for asking this, but who cares, right? And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of ... convened to pick the baby bloggers, who, alongside their more seasoned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019