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• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  Mexican-American, for example, will buy your way into the college of your ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... an ethnic category through no choice of their own, had it easier at

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  the local Starbucks, plugging myself into my music and reading orgo ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure ... temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  live in the suburbs of Boston, and they came into Cambridge last weekend ... Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... : The Story of My Phone: At some point several weeks ago, the screen on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art-related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as ... one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  to be a doctor. I've been taking science classes purely out of interest since then; doing so has suited me far more than any ambitions to go into ... major because there were a ton of chemistry classes that I wanted to take

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits, are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... -to-analog conversion, and eventually produces an ASCII file of spike peak times. I ... of these), and through a textbook on theoretical neuroscience (i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  then selling it, rather than dumping it into their harbor. I saw X3 last ... just barely coherent. There seriously isn't one line of dialogue in the ... Jackman on MSNBC about "the physics of Van Helsing" where he said something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four ... of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... live in the house. The rest of us are scattered around campus. Publicity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  confused about the name of 14.41. I have heard it at different times called ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... as I love Triscuits, but sleep is one of them. Okay I'm losing focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  into some of those shops that you'd otherwise have little time for. Near ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  were walking into. The man in front of me spent the entire rehearsal ... , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  thereby turned me into a much more competent person in terms of cooking ... The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ’s summer and you can’t cram a term of work into seven weeks. The exams you ... it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I ... much of it! ...Anyway. I had fellow Senior House resident Milena write

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008