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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  . Most of that will happen post-launch, but I think this website will be a ... , you're probably familiar with our office, and with our current website ... into this project, we felt pretty good about our website, but there were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a ... ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  [annotation note="very helpful class planning website for MIT students that's updated ... abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... double major in[annotation note="Biological Engineering"]Course 20

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  . [annotation note="this is sarcasm, in case it wasn’t clear. i am quite aware ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It ... cuts in, and it shows the result you'll get when you unfold it. It ... between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is ... in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and life.” In other words, to help you! From Jacob: “We believe that you

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On ... , we can smell the garlic. Love is in the air, and it doesn't smell good ... ice cream -- no one's going to buy it if another stand is giving it out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you learn, create, and problem-solve in an project-based environment. In

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature ... permanent resident, live in the US, and not have your 18th birthday before ... . "Jamie conducted in-depth research into treating infections caused by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the ... Waldo Hacks. Now imagine, you were in lecture: And you looked up

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  application, due July 31. If anything isn't clear, let me know in the comments ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  sped from lower Manhattan to the Bronx, they fell in love: (Boy) It was in no sheltered nook It was by no babbling brook When romantic'lly we met. (Girl) Ah, the scene I can't forget We were thrown together in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  problem sets or 6.002 labs or running 20 miles or buying 843 dollars worth ... in history. Surely, Dr. Sarah Tabacco writing "NOT FLAT" in three-foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  dating websites. When I read it in Freakonomics, I freaked out. And then I ... Chicago economist Steven Levitt. He received his PhD from MIT in 1994, and ... Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three-bar package of Dial Gold My mother said, with the old Asian flair, "Don't buy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  He looked the devil in the eye, and said "You're looking well" The ... Group") Ass. Homo. Group. Overheard in Stata: Yeah, you know, biology ... to die! CVS cashier dude: (I'm trying to buy Tylenol) Well, I need

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009