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• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... . The one thing I always had going for me was that I was very involved in ... much Law and Order this summer?) In my various unofficial capacities as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard kids, where does the illuminati stay on campus, can someone major in a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  held a formal for us back in november"]Twenty Fourmal[/annotation] and ... ways and bad ways, and I have no idea what the next two have in store for ... 's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  The original premise for this blog post was that I would dissect the bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  the other. Therefore, I apologize in advance for the scattered nature of ... programs. I climbed Mt. Fuji recently, likely in preparation for this ... Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the ... Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy ... , reorganized my room. After attending a synthfest in the Media Lab a while ago

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many ... materials scientist who graduated in the early '70s and she told me about her

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy ... " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  beforehand so you spend less time fishing for words in front of your recruitees ... Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  My hope is that in the next p-set and class-filled 48 hours, I eat one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... , “in the past”, studied “lattice gauge theory, magnetic monopoles and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  in voice; a volunteer for MIT’s Violence Prevention and Response as a ... writer for MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech. I took a gap year in Cairo ... . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  boundaries sometimes, and so we forget what the customer asked for in the first ... did materials experiments, were in Building 33 and 41 for events, saw ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn ... holed up in The Tech office for eight hours one night every two weeks ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  the founding of MIT's course in that area. For example, Courses 1 ... : Sometimes, it seems like MIT people only speak in numbers. You'll hear sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  grateful for it. At MIT, in certain departments, there are entire courses ... for graduation, and the order in which I took/will take them: Freshman ... .791 - seminar in xray astronomy - i'm not sure what this counts for :/ Junior

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  ) headquarters for awhile, duffel bag in hand. Seven hours of puzzling later, I ... just for the sake of doing puzzles in sleep-deprived delirium. I ... -shaped paper cut-outs in a complex word pattern. For those of you who are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007