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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  getting into Olin anyway, so it's ok) snapped a picture of yours truly ... Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University ... intended to "tap into the demand for an elite American education from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  surface, first out of the deepslate zone, and then all the way into the dirt ... underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more ... small reminder of the time that’s gone by since i was a little kid

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  into dozens of pieces before they struck him. Apparently, you had to ... Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... in this dormspam I sent out of desperation: I will pay $15 for an H2GO ... talk in September of last year, you might've gotten this exact water

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  City. Too much Nutella makes you forget it's folded into the crease of a ...  (Chinese and Japanese food) over on Beacon Street, Trident (a smorgasbord of ... Mass Ave, and of course, nearly every Chipotle (burritos!) located a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP was spent taking full advantage of my week of no commitments by

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  block of 3 hours into which all 3 8.07 recitations fit so snuggly that it ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  it into yeast along with a DNA that encodes for some random snippet of ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a summer of growth.  Internship Most of my summer was spent working as a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... the sense of overwhelming relief. MIT has been home, sure, but it doesn ... pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  campus now. And, perhaps most importantly, instead of the a la carte system ... There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining. You ... up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of filing to be done. Doing all that filing reminded me of Being John ... with a doctor: Dr. Lester: Which of these two letters comes first, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year ... , bundled in three layers of pajamas resembling a plaid-colored icicle, on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  --building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... ) for around the cost of just the bellows. So I spent the rest of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... packed full of sleeping bags, tents, and food. We were headed about 2.5 hours away (well, before you take into account Boston traffic... it took

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is ... fare for the industry. I already posted some of the cinematographic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010