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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  peek in the bathroom shows me that my body wash is going to run out! Well ... Interneting Once breakfast is made I usually head back to my room to enjoy the actual eating portion. Because my hands are in use this is the perfect time

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  name is Gordon and I’m from sunny Santa Monica, California. Most would ... of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to ... Student Center to Skullhouse across the river, music of some kind never

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A: Exhibit A Jon is the one closest to you, sitting at his computer after ... discovered that there is much more to MIT than schoolwork and studying. He

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the ... happy to live in it." Wilczek's last quote is particularly appropriate to ... Yesterday, I wrote, "I'll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  in case anyone was wondering, the one part I hate most from Sex and The ... doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  actually in Building 26, which is now home to MIT's most well-known lecture ... professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in ... philosophy behind cloud computing. Cloud computing is the means by which data

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs ... feel free to post your interpretations in the comments. I would highly ... Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... expert. What I do take pride in, though, is my understanding of the media

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in ... names in the class (tied) are David and Michael (14 each). The most ... highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Chocolate Science has come to the rescue! The Lab offers free hot chocolate in ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  email, we had raked in ~$9000 in funding. It was one of the most inspiring ... literally sat in the student center by Dunkin Donuts from 4 pm to 4 am and just pushed out so much work to get the website ready for the launch. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  lights. (I was temp'ed in EC during CPW) How much is the real MIT like that ... the one I always tried to ride in) and drove toward the distant ... decades ago caused the water in the hot springs to turn into sulfuric acid

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round ... you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... , the two posted up in the business room with their eyes glued to their

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  extracirriculars. But in the meantime, I don't think academics is the absolute most ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  axiom to keep in mind during the finals season! Of course, the Lunar ... the construction plans due to an Institute budget crunch in 1913." One of the things I love most about MIT is the history that surrounds our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  of the times in high school when I would stay after school ranting to ... process after the week to just have that time to relax and indulge in ... is the epitome of android quality, and she takes much artsy-er photos

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him ... . However, this entry is dedicated to Sam, who neglected to mention that HE is ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  word shows up constantly in our language. But perhaps closure is the ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about ... really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007