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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not ... about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is ... years ago." Heh. While googling Holmstrom for this entry, I found this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... America's candy universe, with 32 candy factories (including those for Tootsie Roll, Necco Wafers, and Squirrel Nut Zippers) in the city. Sadly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  lie on a certain vertical straight line. This has been checked for the first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every ... the book tour for his latest, Busting Vegas, that he wrote with Semyon

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... ...)." This left a few people quite intrigued. For example, Laura commented ... admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  , but it's definitely more for people who write longer posts. The check-ins ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... starts (in my case, when I was packing to come to Orientation!) I've gone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  for my family. During my time in undergrad, the Admissions Office ... officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the ... probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... this unusual freedom were rife with extravagant eating, curling up in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  we make admissions decisions and what we look for in students. So ... you think. Because in the end, everything we do here is for all of you ... welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication ... 's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  they announced Arabic for English speakers. In doing so I found out that ... . Oblivious of what this would result in, I decided to work for the rest of the ... loop for several hours a day, resulting in my passing of the 18,000 XP

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  . And I wasn’t quite sure where in my evening the hours for that work were ... work. I traded in my party dress and heels for business attire—uggs and ... . I spent the rest of the night in my workstation for the evening—the Mc

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  -ing and student holiday-ing, people had come together in the main lounge for ... TV in the lounge and he was streaming on Discord for the quarantining ... how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  doing for the rest of my life. And in some aspects: yes. I do. Raymond ... proving a point that I'm good enough for CS, when in reality, I don't have ... For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the ... that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the ... things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  electric drill for the first time in East Campus as rotating troupes of pre ... When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its ... Maxwell's Equations in integral form on Wikipedia. This is a new low for the ... in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... cheaper for me to go to MIT than to go to a public tech school in a state ... a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  helps in the transfer admissions process. If you are intending to go for ... , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie, for instance, took a lot of cellular and molecular neurobiology classes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  fifty nature articles, most for a local paper, but also a few in the ... majors for yourself, since he will probably persuade you to major in it too ... past almost all the dorms in West Campus. Stop when you are greeted by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011