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• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend ... . What a bad idea.) Living in Baker availed me the opportunity to be in ... throughout the past four years. So I think the way we came to be is that one

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive ... to admit fewer than 20 students. It is a difficult process: as usual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the only one posted right now, but there is much more to come! I hope ... the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  weren't able to put your name down before they start!) The first night is ... to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... just the sum of your parts. I personally feel the essay is the most ... . Yes, the essay is important, but it's hard to make your writing more

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

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  their kids, but his Nobel is kind of off in the corner of his office. He ... TIM THE BEAVER. He happened to be in Stata the day I was carrying Flat ... waffle, though. In other news, 12 days until I get to see the real Ryan

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  are very close to my heart. Most recently, I was involved in an ... ;Untitled." Now more than ever, the divide has formed in contemporary art: those ... identity lends itself to a political identity: the idea of a blank passport

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  food but the Ethiopian side of me is so used to people begging you to eat ... saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how ... this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  . The process for dropping is rather straight forward in that you submit ... , considering the amount of work that you have already put in. But there is ... semesters, I would only have to take 3-4 classes to graduate in the spring of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  all the people that love to hear about vaginas! This is the only ... you listening, both guys and girls, to state that this is not what the ... I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  lags and is measured in carrier pigeons per second ***let it be known to ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... pset parties***, the awesome people - but if I had to narrow it down to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the

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

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  cannot do so, because the context in which his works were formed is gone ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... added, "MIT also encourages us to think about the future as much as the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the ... access to the magazines—in my experience, many more people were talking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 ... ? All in all, an amazing five days with some of the most inspirational ... ), one of the FPOPs (Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs) offered to incoming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  of the US. In middle school I wanted to be popular. Freshman year of ... 'm going to let you in on one of the not-so-pretty secrets about MIT: it ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  he played The Fonz in Happy Days). 20.441 is probably my favorite class ... II There is not much to be said about this class except that ... using Python and MATLAB. The awesome description: We get to build virtual

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not ... In response to my last entry, Drew asked: "So, how important is it ... be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But ... . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to ... 'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022