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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  -least-favorite day of the year, after moving-out day (which additionally involves ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of ... renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... MIT's 28 fraternities in the fall of my freshman year--while I had no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... importantly, there’d be the inevitable background static of loneliness, anxiety ... because a lot of the “college experience” media that I consumed skewed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  .com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA&t=455s livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an ... that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population, at the same time. Which more or less sounds like massive amounts of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  learning the proper ratio of coffee grounds to water, does not taste like ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... ’m doing it right. I mean, the tangible steps part of this theory is great

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  your legal name and the Office of the First Year may use your preferred ... out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... the name we will use in all official print and email communication from
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  ’s outcomes. Now, why does step 3 work for computing the causal impact of our ... Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... it rhymes), because while MIT does have a communal love of gargantuan ... running all the way to the Museum of Science by the Charles just to catch up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  cash, an iPhone, a set of keys tagged with the apartment address, and a ... It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of-the ... class for mechanical engineers - you learn the basics of using a mill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... , and looking at the future I saw only hazy outlines of possible paths. At

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... 're able to see the bigger picture and realize that it's not the end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  , there are 19,000 or so of you worried about the same thing right now. Good ... want to keep any of you waiting longer than others (also the reason why ... ’re looking for. The most relevant tags for all of you are Freshman Applicants

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  crochet. The essence of crochet is creating an appealing piece. However, appealing is subjective and ultimately depends on the values of the maker and the functionality of the piece itself. For example, appealing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  good hopes and  Imaginations of the universe,  Digits, letters, and ... -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was ... achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013