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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  's picture on the cover? I conceived that as a rhetorical question, but actually, it has an answer: how about BRUCE CAMPBELL DOING A BOOK SIGNING AT ... Corner Theater?! I seriously don't think you get how exciting this is. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to ... have no excuses! (I've also realized that there is a Spongebob gif for ... Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that I could sleep just a little bit longer. Sad. Thrilled ... , lastly (3) I feel like Christina's site is a pretty good representation of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... , you will not get to do that. I say "unfortunately" because REX is what ... Wow, that last post was short. I didn't even tell you what I'm doing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  decisions at the front end of this process. This meant that I was in a great ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... selective a college was because I knew that some would be harder to get into

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... in high school, I felt that it was less about a “game” or about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  go to art school or a school that specializes in teaching people how to ... 's really fun and cool) is something I'm glad I found a way to do, and would ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  /coffee/coke/caffeine/speed/whatever in the dorms? Haha, I'd say that's about average for a freshman pset ... Mellon is a popular choice for CS, and that Case Western (in my home state ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and ... .) So, I'll sell my soul a little and turn this entry into a what is ... ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found that having a job and participating in an extracurricular activity have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  analogy to respond that Unified is hard in the same way that running a ... but that you follow along, that you come to class, that you do what is ... strong they are. Anyone who puts in the effort required (which is quite a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... schools jointly occupied the position of "dream school." I included both in ... top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... deep. (Yes, I do know that Chris Vu passed the first round of auditions

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  the recruitment we're doing is working, and how we can potentially ... You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a ... bed[/caption] I stand by that but I hope they never will, up here. They ... days people have been complaining. I grew so convinced it was hot that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored and how irrelevant many of them are to what i currently do. in ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  I realized that I had to schedule an interview. It takes me a bit of ... painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I ... have, but it ended up working. I had a nice conversation with my EC that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  is never easy, but in most cases it's possible to do. Certainly a lot ... . Macgregor is divided into nine entries; I've lived in A-Entry and D ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006