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• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  enrollment") Both of these examples, of course, don't get caught by spell ... activity list, list of honors and awards, self-reported coursework form, or ... look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student ... , paid for by the '07 class council! :-) Take this amazing opportunity to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  years: we notified 30 students by email that they have been admitted from ... offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those ... off the waitlist, and wishing them the best of luck at the college they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory ... on) 12 major substantive topics addressed by experimental social

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We ... Portlet This portlet will display a thumbnail of a poster, which can be

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... participating institutions for a set duration. For a list of member institutions ... of cases with institutions who have strategic partnerships with MIT
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs. emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  each line of OREO code as a code sandwich, with RE’s enclosed by O ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]interpreter[/annotation] for a programming language called snek, which is a dialect of LISP. But

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... talk about exhaustion, how classes drag on you, hours of scribbling ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  the grader. The grader can then resolve the request by awarding the full ... respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up ... happened over and over again. There are a ton of pset graders, so we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie ... one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean ... a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  the pharmaceutical drugs on the surfaces of the polymers by increasing ... one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  application, and across rooms of random hall are all drawn by former blogger ... 3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no ... passageway between buildings 3 and 10."]complex of rooms along the Infinite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to ... phenomena represented by different parts of the spectrum (ex. warm gas and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  of childhood care. Two, I’ve been spoilt by 24/7 room service. Three ... Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear ... November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010