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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can't ... Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  decompose sound waves into English because I'm narcotically lapsing into a ... Three days of Manhattan ended on Monday afternoon beneath a dripping ... waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On the contrary, I've had a stupendously excellent weekend while my sheets have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she gave me a quizzical look when I came home for Christmas break freshman ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which ... patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  freshmen that’s inspiring and a little nostalgic. I didn’t come to MIT with ... them to me a few christmases ago, and I didn’t really wear them until I ... identity as a clueless freshman has been stripped though I have inadvertently

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  ...uh,  plaque thing. There isn’t much of a story behind this, expect that we were ... now, we remember how cool and artsy we thought it was. *m a x i m u m c ... up was opening containers. We started with a clear plastic one. Its lid

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  everything a wall should be and shouldn’t be at the same time. they add depth ... labeled OTB is a lounge on the other side of the wall. no, i don't know if you can fit a bed in the right half of the room; no, i don't know how

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  , and I'm all done. The gallery is a constant work-in-progress. Sam Magee ... , and I'm lucky to have gotten a spot. Perhaps one day we’ll have a ... might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  these national scholars and competition people and I'm just a guy from ... A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don't ... , but he didn't have much in common with them. Then he got a little ... parties going on that night, and the other two were a lot closer, but I didn't

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  your school uses a trimester schedule, please use your first trimester ... must be submitted no later than February 15th. Wait! I won’t ... from students with something to report. If you're in a school that

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  was warm. I walked around without a hat or gloves and didn't feel the slightest chill. Things change quickly, sometimes. One thing that hasn't ... 's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  gravity, a first principle to found my life upon. I’m not sure when it ... of raspberries. I haven’t yet found a way out. Like most members of ... tell he wasn’t interested. “You have to understand,” he said. “I’m not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  ’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the ... front isn’t too shabby either. Outside [annotation note="room on the third floor of tEp"]32,[/annotation] the Prudential rules its brownstone pawns

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  . Tuesdays used to be a glorious time. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Gates lobby ... hours, but it never returned. I felt a brief glimmer of hope when I heard ... has worse location, hours, prices, and selection. As a result, my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... "), we admitted 1611 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  the same. Matt's a big deal so he didn't respond immediately. I am very ... don't remember anymore - I'm an old. Sophomore year, we moved to the ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  than I am at MIT, and Bob Barker could die and I wouldn't even know about it for three months! This is like the time Tony Randall died and I didn't ... Nice was spend a night in our Pension Grillparzer-esque hostel, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006