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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... the second, I was newly done with high school, and better able to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  means I don't have to take the FEE, but do I still get 9 unrestricted ... Questions 1. Anonymous asked, Did you go to Senior Ball? I think ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events ... not expect to like Houston. But now I understand the phrase "southern

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  . Concepts applied to simple computing circuits in the behaving animal. M. Fee ... only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite ... West to get there. GAHHH). We all got off from work pretty late, but decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  not eligible for fee waiver.I didn't know how to solve it so I created ... With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  floor when we realized that one has to pay a ridiculous entrance fee up ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a ... wanted to write about Early Action and Regular Action (EA and RA) since we

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... float up to the top. "Huh," I said. "That's weird." And proceeded to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to ... √ґln, and I have to say that just watching the game is way more exciting than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... ? Mmm, I'm applying to Internal Medicine residency this year - we'll see

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  , and consequently had to spend an extra $10 on ATM fees. My order ... If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  "Doc" Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, and to this ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  Scottish band, beating even Franz Ferdinand. Now, you know I don't like to do just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some ... cicada or something and it made me think about my choice to come to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  have to pay a small membership fee. But in return for $20, I secured the ... embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit ... subjective rankings and even the information provided is subject to what I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Essay Evaluation (FEE) or which pre-orientation program to take ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  to offload their junk for a fee. I checked my Reuse-Sell folder, and ... often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010