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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a ... much intrigue and humorous dialogue (the book is quite entertaining

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is ... capital (as her aunt suggests she do), she is refusing to participate in ... bearable for these people to live in a socially stratified city, with all the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest ... take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... . --------------------------------------------- One of the questions I get asked most often by high schoolers is whether

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... Ireland. The UK is the fully sovereign state that holds membership in the ... substitute teacher in the room during most days, which helped immensely with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... in the admissions office to craft questions and prompts that elicit ... have said repeatedly over the years, “the factor that is both most

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit ... early admission rate is often much, much higher than the regular action admission rate). The reason is that we are committed to admitting no more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I ... ? Not since I was in Tucson. This is lovely, and I appreciate the beauty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it ... in my class were way over, so much so that the professor changed the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand, we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... incapable of doing the things we would much rather being doing, so most

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his ... the best way to learn something is to teach it, and for me the easiest ... proof is one of the easiest way to trump your cognitive biases: either it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  real. The next day I ventured to Constitution Hill in one of the more ... the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid ... . In that first week alone I learned so much, mostly because this was my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  … 9.24 Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System is my last and most ... speaker, it’s one of the most knowledgeable speakers in the field! Seriously ... of the most important people in the world in the field of animal models

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  ElAtEd To ThE cOvId-19 CrIsIs, read: there"]here[/annotation] at MIT has come to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been ... offer you my congratulations. Welcome to the most stressful four years of ... in itself, I have learned the most about myself during the times I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  MIT, I appreciate the most is the diversity. I guess it might be because ... vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  mindset goes sour remember there is so much beauty to grasp always. In the ... ’t want to get into the weeds here just yet, but this is probably where most ... successfully after a while, choose to take in the things that bring color to my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  , and joon is lol, so i wouldn't have been able to make this in the first ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... the lo-fi hip hop beats to study/relax to playlist, and that is usually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the ... the same time from ventures in which its leadership is no longer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018