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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... .” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one of the most vaguely negated sentences ever or what?), but this one was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... start of my freshman fall, we were still amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a magnetic disk. Here's the description of the problem: http://web.mit.edu/6 ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  " come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been ... ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and ... One week from today -- on Monday, October 8 -- the Nobel Foundation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... again, so I'm not too far removed from the whole process. One of the biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... as it sounds, but dissection is actually really important. In the Amon ... the organelles; rather, it refers to separating different genotypes of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  in the laundry basket. Doing this is just a lot of effort, especially ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... elsewhere. This is the single biggest drawback of the meal plan: that when ... shopping in actual grocery stores, which is part of my definition of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have ... things about MIT is the names of our a capella groups. The Chorallaries ... on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  (whichever comes first). The implications of high-temp superconductors is ... atom bomb? Well Los Alamos is in the certified middle of nowhere, which ... . Being in the middle of nowhere also means there is relatively little to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  to as Infinite 1, and every floor of the Infinite above that is indexed ... in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  . Because I truly want all of you here and for that reason, tomorrow is going ... Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... value of the study break a couple of weeks ago when I was working on this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted ... award. So if any of you think getting the perfect score isn't important ... in MIT admissions. But do any of the above things, or anything else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... lies This is the dawning of the rest of our lives On holiday [annotation ... will be what the wolf in this song is - domesticated, and a thing of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... applicants. The idea is that the answers tell us something about the applicant ... many different types (and amounts) of essay questions, ranging from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... those AP classes and all of those activities." Here are two of the ... take loads of advanced courses because to them gaining knowledge is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under ... , especially in the early rays of daybreak, when the sun strikes my solar ... attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  of an adventure. For instance, I came here straight from the country ... information sessions, I am always amazed at the number of international visitors ... really get a sneak peek at the life of an MIT student. These students have

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012