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• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... AP Exam prep. Barron’s Test Prep is the most thorough for really any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  word shows up constantly in our language. But perhaps closure is the ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about ... really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it ... . Turns out, they were the next day. I usually like to prepare a few days in ... GEL program encourages its students to get the most out of their

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish ... haven't caught up to him yet. * Dr. Popular is the cutest cat you've ever ... 't involve suffocation from the worst smell known to man. It got really bad in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  large part of our job is knowing all the ins and outs of admissions so ... comments on an entry the comment is e-mailed to us, this way we get to see ... tangents in the comments. Number five is totally legitimate because it keeps

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  assigned me to the grad student whose study he thought I'd be most helpful ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is ... the recommendation is much more important than how famous the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... everything else. And I'm sad to say that the first thing to go is always my ... is equivalent to his death, the settling of an entire people–even if it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  bag twist ties to add detail along the neckline. This is supposed to be ... lingerie and sci-fi aesthetics. The title of her piece is a reference to a ... drape is made from clear tarp to offset the chaos of the bodysuit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  fills in the image where text is removed (think Photoshop's Content Aware ... about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  require the world to think in much broader terms. And until aliens from some ... My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  IAP is perfect- 2 weeks in December wouldn't be nearly enough to unwind ... tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... , so the rooms in a suite will be 254A-254E, in our case.). And made

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  on the beach in Dakar: The music scene in Dakar is one of the most ... This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT ... name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  weird sorry Jess. Jess is the only blogger to have ever made me laugh and ... feels, there is so much to analyze, ugh, my heart, *dramatically clutches ... northeast, which is a travesty because it is the one steak sauce to rule all

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living ... to say it might have been the best food that i’ve had in a while. we

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and ... Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

   watermelon and lots more food from Shaws to [seemingly] the ends of the earth in a ... ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... could take that starts in the fall and runs through IAP. The labs were

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  .) It's important to keep in mind the loud harmony of Tim's pipe as ... lurking behind a pillar. Here's Greg again -- he sauntered in to enjoy the ... in Building 14 near the Hayden Library. Yet another person stopped to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the ... you. One of the most important characteristics of MIT students is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010