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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  Nisha of the present, I thought that a status update might be appropriate. (Sidenote: this will probably become a yearly thing.) Sidequest 1: Learn the ... ’s likely that this sidequest will forever be stalled at 25%... Sidequest 3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  lottery, I usually prefer to save my luck for the day when I will be ... about the intricacies of black holes. It turned out to be less Nobel ... physicist can be. Currently the Feynman professor of Physics at Caltech, one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  these agents and mathematically proves what the societal outcome will be ... drowning. To wade in and pull the child out would be easy but it will mean ... should be overlooked. There’s also the fact that people often judge a major

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  MIT in 1934 “for all who might be interested in knowing more about the ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion Picture (1992) You may have seen MIT: The Motion Picture on our homepage or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  wish will be granted eventually. You'll turn 21 and realize you don ... mother will likely nag you to learn how to drive the summer between your ... 'll be picked up, you watch a motorcyclist slide and crash into the curb at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than ... frosh.  You will not be a frosh and the frosh will not be sophomores until ... and try the hardest you can in your classes - the semester will be over

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  ?", "Will you be at CPW?" but also other things; for instance, the organizer ... being the majority of the room) speak, as well as Alums from other high ... be a tough school and admit only the brightest, and were surprised to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  be straightened. Engineers decided that the best solution would be to ... Podolski!" cheer. The point of the story is that it ended up being a bit ... "something white," which ended up being the reflection of the sun on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  pretty high. The exception will be for video. We're looking to add video ... will be the single most important part of your application.While you do ... ... the coveted 50 pixel avatar of an Admissions Blogger. Sure you won't be

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube ... coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an ... . Your application will be read by a small committee including some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  me as I cried on and on about failing my first class, the desk workers ... stone clad courtyard it still feels like home. And it will always be my ... was, and how else could I be cool except by living where the cool people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  past two years have been great, and I anticipate that the next two will ... teaching me things that I will be using in my future career. It is a great ... of work, more so than they should be given the number of units in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be overwhelming, but give it all you got. Everyone’s afraid of failing. In each of ... it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  exhibit at the Deitch Gallery in New York, inspired by his new movie, Be ... causes all the tapes to be erased. Left to their own devices, the pair is ... just recently came to visit us at the begining of February to screen Be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  transfer to my most recent laptop and could only be found in my old Hotmail ... temporarily hate you, they will barely remember the schools, and they'll still ... , which were that a) the school had to be in or near a city, but not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  of thought to the gift exchange, the following (incomplete) list will ... goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  Orientation, I will be living on the MIT campus all year! Hooray! Everybody ... 't ride the subway enough for this to be worthwhile, you can just pay each ... stops appear to be in a straight line from each other on the T map, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  low number of points because otherwise too many people would fail the ... the following: most intro physics classes and basic physics models will ... 's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... across the street at a Malaysian restaurant, Penang. Yummy. Then, I went

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004