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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... , including a half-hour conversation with Jeff '06, President of Random Hall, at ... is that, if you look at the cast list, there's a lot of people who are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that ... 7) motorcycle against a backdrop of midgar at night ... if you like video games at all, then you're probably familiar with e3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  ).[/annotation] If you take a slice of this worm at a given time, you obtain a three ... stagnant-- I'm growing with my worm over time, though at any point of the ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... looking at this ring of city surrounding this blue gray sky lake. (The ... sit down on the bench and stare at the campus. I’m reminded of what my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I ... . By the end of the training regime, I was running 4 miles at the ... improved visibly. I could see it in my heart rate at various parts of the run

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  down your professors who talk at .66667c, and condense an hour's worth of ... crazy things we do at school and lots of the execs came and sat with us at ... something nerdy, you do it at an impressive level, regardless of what it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  spent 1/3 of my life at MIT. This will be the longest I've ever spent at ... as of late has been graduating but still staying at the same place ... to MIT because of the "weird people" they believed to be at MIT. Not to

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  good at it; I transcribed one line of dictation as "Wen essen Sie?" which ... life of a chemical engineer, at the request of an anonymous commenter ... I have a lot of free time tonight after finishing my 21F.401: German

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT ... spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement ... map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... pianist at the same professional performance level as students at the finest conservatories, she has a perfect record at MIT in advanced courses across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  . "Feelsbox" is a local word for an open-ended question placed at the end of ... concert tomorrow at 5 pm in 10-250, And, of course, the blatant ... reasons, and I was responding to an email on my phone at the end of a busy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  ! And so, after three beautiful years of Ring Premiere blog entries, I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging rite of passage

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  It is June of last year. I am interning at a medical devices company ... on time of day and whether there's a game at Fenway Park. Twice through ... again, all of it at once, and I feel all that I had ignored before: the

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  fortress at Barad-Dur is rebuilt on the land of 10-250. The Exam yearns to go ... DID YOU KNOW? The landscape of the Charles River around MIT is almost ... , swimming and fishing are progressively re-emerging as about 90% of the length

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006