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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , doing so much. if i began to write everything that needed to be done, it ... , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  enroll. Colleges do decide whom to accept, but if you are smart about where ... important if I was to find the right matches for me. I couldn't rely on rumors ... being smart in the admissions process). I knew that some schools were

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  "smart" and it would be a pity if I didn't get to use my brain as much as I ... probably rooted in the same premise that it would be good to encourage more ... around, or openly be on their phones during class, or talk to their friends

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  "The less learned cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing ... unless I actually knew the song. I certainly wouldn't be able to say "ah ... 's hard to tell from the picture, but there are wooden flaps (called slats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the surface would be amplified below. It may be easier to think of the GEM as a ... ,000 holes can cause the foil to fail. Laurie began her UROP last spring and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  blog readership will be excited to learn this fact. Adam Helfant, MIT ... , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to ... went to Harvard Law (the latest MIT Careers Office statistics have MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  indifferent. Wouldn’t it be easy to just believe the people, people on all sides ... : “If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like ... street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be ... !"][/annotation] (spoilers in the footnote, don't read it if you're actually going to watch it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  the Air. Issues with Macs If you are going to be a Mechanical Engineer ... , everyday student. If you're going to be doing basic typing, Mathematica ... developed the red nubby mouse thing (I don't know what to call it!) on the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• 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 ... just turned out to be more beautiful, vast, and engrossing than the last ... ?) if somebody's going to tell you not to take pictures of the Sistine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  premed heavy. If there's any place at MIT you'd expect to be cutthroat, it ... has to be easy to be cutthroat -- there has to be the possibility that ... . I mean, what good does it do you to be competitive? Nobody would help

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can, please breathe, relax, and ground yourself. If the emotions become too much to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  , and you make a good one--to try. You actually can be interested in the ... . If you had literally nothing to do and the world at your fingers, you ... school backpack, slipping them under the desk to friends during class. So

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  the conversation to be organic. The interview is a chance to talk more ... above), we sometimes tend to be our own worst critics, so the EC probably ... you too. As long as you’re being respectful and are trying to add to the

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... , and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during ... missing the fast pace of studies. Students also grew accustomed to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  above a majority) to be correct. A single majority answer being the wrong ... answers it computes to be correct, and if at least one of these answers is incorrect, then ALG fails. It thus helps to compute the probability that at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be ... . to be honest, at the time, i thought my mit application was pretty ... , if you feel bad, then that's fine. you don't have to believe in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if ... make you even less certain about learning how to drive, especially if you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... hold everybody in the admissions office to that vague decade-old promise

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017