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• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  like stepping confidently into the center of a deep puddle, knowing your boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... 18. get it?) The value of i choose 18 is (34376687 + 1499084559 i

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  Offering of Quantum Mechanics II), usually a fall course, can now also be ... See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital ... in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  unaware of it - the 1975 MUSICAL: the last five years - jason robert brown ... be skeptical of promises to revolutionize transportation from people who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate ... degrees (celsius), with the daily mean being 28 degrees. in the summers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist ... mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... the MIT Class of 2027, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 685. Though they are all different in their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board ... mysteriously lit by the glow of the microphone rack who constantly shuffled their ... was actually a result of a few kids scrambling around behind the scenes

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... course road “filled” up (quotation marks because neither of us have future

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned ... time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you're declining our offer of ... Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... it that time of year already? What was going wrong with me? I went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022