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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  now it has become you know, a staple part of our day? - Hey whatchu up ... the Occupy Movement and worked to figure out shelter possibilities for ... your work done - at all. But it does bring up points of interest. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... heckles me about this a lot. "Man, you could look up [that thing you want to look up on Wikipedia] if you had a smartphone. Except you don'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  : "For some artists repression had a psychological upside.... If what ... up in random queues!?! Little do they know, it's an anonymous ... ;lining up" in a soviet state was simply a sign of inefficient resource

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of ... up at a good college doing something I loved once the whole application ... 't nearly as certain anymore. Pooooooop. Meh, it'll be fine. I'll end up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  , but I'll let you be the judge of that. This morning I woke up and saw ... up using their own explosives to "detonate it," deem it inert, and then ... concrete sphere to Kresge anyway? So that's the excitement for the day. Giant

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  . ANGELA MONSTER: Sure, I'll come wake you up at 11. this morning, leaving ... way home YING-FEI: Hey, Jess! ME: Hey, Ying-fei. YING-FEI: What's up? ME ... : (thinking) Seriously? ME: (thinking) Seriously. (thanks to Allin for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... store what you want. My friends and I spent multiple days coming up with ... hard time coming up with something that works. You can not solve this

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  tense about a funny story from our lives. If nothing else, I'm waking up ... . I began searching for answers toward the end of last semester. School ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  stayed up until 3 am studying. The next morning, I woke up having had the ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  handle the class, not me. If you want to sign up for something that you ... So, a few weeks ago, Matt gave me an excellent idea for content ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  Hindi course (though Mandarin is up next for me). hedwig asked, "i was ... eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... email was filed by the email staff. As for the interview, we do not assume

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going ... was waiting for decisions back then. Hopefully, this playlist will help

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... love to have on campus. For those of you whom were not admitted, know

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  making up more categories as I go. I am excited to see what you think, so ... songs. Ready for It will never not be a banger opening song. I also ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... students for their senior thesis, so we read one long book or several long articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of ... to get emails saying I helped your admissions process. Thanks again for ... your questions coming right up: Ally asked: I think I remember you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual ... groups. =) If you end up living at BC next year (for real, after freshmen ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  slightly more tolerable, we made another playlist for y'all! Enjoy :) https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020