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• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  The Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way out the door. Formally known ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into ... .Good default usernames are your last name (if it is fairly unique and 8 letters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  's put it another way - if 200 million people try to register votes in that ... button.) When it's THAT close, you really have to wonder. Someone tell me ... it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  President Obama’s presidency. One of the students’ top goals is to win the ... students must feel is painful. To hear them speak about their status and try ... other Dreamers struggling to succeed, is beautiful. Directly after the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to ... sports, it's possible to join and excel even if you never played in high ... to practice as much (cheerleading, which is a club sport, practices 6

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... . The bottom line here is that it is okay to slow down. Life, college ... intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  some way, however miniscule, it will contribute to their healing. A ... him for organizing the memorial concert, "I'm so sorry it had to be ... , there is a community here mourning with you and for you. Now I say to you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a ... precisely control the pressure to make sure it stayed within a safe range and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things ... growing to like the new house. I would come to prefer it, with its proximity ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... the Eiffel tower to almost seeing Francois Holland (it's not every ... 've come to call it my home away from home, MIT!  

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in ... can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by ... can guarantee that it would look like complete gibberish to you. In the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject ... say it made me uncomfortable is an understatement - it gave me a chance to look at the one-track mind I'd developed and wonder if it'd be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  always, back to the grind it is. At least Zürich (and Switzerland) warmed ... proximity to so many different countries make it so easy to hop on trains or ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s ... nerdiness is futile, so I might as well be unabashedly proud of it. The second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time intervals on the same day. I call it Dark Thursday. Learning at MIT is hard ... be exhilarating. It pushes one to the limits of intellectual capacities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  ." I guess what I'm trying to say is, if I had to go back and do it all ... to your web browser, and the best part is pictures are now super-easy to upload. You know what this means? Photos of kitties! This is

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As ... while I'm thinking of it, that brings us to... FIRST ANNUAL TURKEY VS ... you had to say, out loud, the symbol "ln x," how would you pronounce it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  to control Black and brown bodies, is the same. I was especially ... groups outside of it to pressure leaders and push for change. I’d recommend ... unfamiliar city, and I avoid running after dark.  The night is ours to burn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting ... is basically what it was. There was even a Trashion geotag on Snapchat ... local businesses. It was obvious that Trashion was dressed to impress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  different ways an forced myself to have a go of all it and blah blah blah But ... , did the best that I can  I moved up to Maine until I couldn’t stand it ... know is surprised to hear That I have an internship.   I

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of ... instead of wielding it, and I will attempt to write the next paragraph without including the word "I," to compensate for its overuse in this one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009