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• 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the ... [/annotation] said in a statement: [This brief asks] the Court to uphold over 40 years ... importance of diversity to our nation’s success in the global economy; and (3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... AP Exam prep. Barron’s Test Prep is the most thorough for really any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it ... . Turns out, they were the next day. I usually like to prepare a few days in ... GEL program encourages its students to get the most out of their

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish ... haven't caught up to him yet. * Dr. Popular is the cutest cat you've ever ... 't involve suffocation from the worst smell known to man. It got really bad in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  large part of our job is knowing all the ins and outs of admissions so ... comments on an entry the comment is e-mailed to us, this way we get to see ... tangents in the comments. Number five is totally legitimate because it keeps

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  assigned me to the grad student whose study he thought I'd be most helpful ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is ... the recommendation is much more important than how famous the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... everything else. And I'm sad to say that the first thing to go is always my ... is equivalent to his death, the settling of an entire people–even if it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  bag twist ties to add detail along the neckline. This is supposed to be ... lingerie and sci-fi aesthetics. The title of her piece is a reference to a ... drape is made from clear tarp to offset the chaos of the bodysuit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  fills in the image where text is removed (think Photoshop's Content Aware ... about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  require the world to think in much broader terms. And until aliens from some ... My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006