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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma ... 's nearly impossible to come up with just one distinguishing interest, habit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution ... . Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... ). First and definitely foremost. I like to make lists. And spreadsheets. And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it ... -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed ... over the phone to the applicant only. People have asked about the ... of the early pool, I must say just how difficult it was to narrow it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . Yesterday was also the deadline to schedule the early action interview. What should you do if you missed it? Well, obviously, you first need to know who ... .253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... undergraduate research, also what this happens to be about."]UROP[/annotation] at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... parents used to drive me [annotation note="bless them, it’s not an easy round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  18.701 to 701, I keep thinking you’re talking about biology ... is almost orthogonal to the previous discussion” Translation: “This is almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6 ... -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... music professor created the game. Due to time and hardware limitations

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  Hi! Hello! Long time no see. It's weird to be typing again. I feel ... friends probably could've told you that. I've moved to San Francisco, a city I am learning to love tolerate. I'm living by myself for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Delivery, from its initial conception to its pandemic cancellation to its surprising revival. I’ll also share my experience going to two different classes’ Ring Deliveries (2022 and 2023), which I had the opportunity to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’s much more helpful to ask Anxiety why it’s acting up instead of ignoring ... specific please? Anxiety: Well to start, there’s housing. AHHHHH! Bitch, we

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  , Saturday, August 30 whenever the words decide to magically appear on my Word ... 're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... - Jack's Mannequin, Ways to Go - Grouplove, Really Don't Care - Demi Lovato

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To ... Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life by Jenny X. '13 Leaving a Mark by Kate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the ... that I have spoken to did not expect to join one when they first entered ... national stereotype, so we decided to give recruitment a try. Since the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can't find information on it there. This is a program I'd like to write about ... HST, and they seem to think it's great. As for your second question, yes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  there are so many cool ones and I'm having difficulty choosing what to do. I am three (3) classes away from graduating. I need to take one Course ... .UAT[/annotation] to fulfill my CI-M requirement, and I am taking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022