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• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  this have seen at least an episode of TDS and are familiar with its basic ... 's approach at an intellectual/theoretical level (the rhetorical mode of the ... , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the ... before, I will declare Course 4 – Architecture at the end of this semester ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking ... internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  road, plus tiny maps at the intersection of buildings with helpful "you ... /MIT station, I noticed the ground covered in a blanket of soft, powdery snow. At first, I balked at the idea of walking all the way back to Maseeh with no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly ... then matriculate at MIT, and I had the idea of bringing this concept of a ... -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  number of men ride horses at great speed and fire long-rifles into the air ... More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  knew about it, and didn't blog it. Of course, this was at a time when I ... because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty ... of things that make MIT seem like the big bully at the playground

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  also offers to sell me no less than three pounds of tiny dried shrimp, at ... A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note="At ... traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and ... , including at the only other college I'm aware of that has an admissions ... some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in ... and intricacies of a satisfying plot. Unfortunately, not all of these

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... also in a mixture of East and West Campus geography - at the beginning of ... fringe of the academic buildings. I know that when I was first looking at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  orientation/recruitment events. It's been a lot of fun, but also quite ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what ... bit of time working on Burton Conner's website, which is a true work of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... to have Verizon at MIT). Cingular does seem to offer better rates on ... to be offering this $200 rebate promotion on a wide selection of phones

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  15.27182 – Lecture Anatomy 101 Prereq: None, Units: 1-0-1, Lecture: M EVE (11 PM-midnight) (iHouse), NO FINAL

  

  Analysis of Lecture Seating. Offered Fall term only. Happy Thanksgiving ... Practical introduction to the theory of lecture seating. Revolves mainly around the Oasis Model of Lecture Seating, along with practical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  idea pop into my head at the strangest of moments, and quickly jot it ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... you can use it. It's actually one thing I wish there was more of at MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011