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• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  advantages of learning, who had the means to go to college in an era before ... in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically ... parents (or aunt, or grandfather, or third cousin) went to MIT. In fact, one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... ’s true?” How mathematics should be taught to non-mathematicians. And this ... references to this come up again and again in wildly different places, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  managed to get lost in the dark.   Credit your innate sense ... consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to ... applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  videos gave me secondhand embarrassment in a matter of seconds; I had to go ... they would not be allowed to live in Senior House in the fall, as new ... four years. In addition, the linked article pointed to “concerns of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  walk, how I am or am not in the flow, to how it takes me time to relearn ... unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to ... #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for her around campus next year...at least in The Tech. Here's today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  .) be detrimental to chances of getting in? How about participating in ... 's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M ... relation play in the admissions process? If my grandfather went to MIT, how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  constant fight to achieve balance in our social and academic lives. Athena ... classy event and one of the only times that the entire '08 class gets to be ... As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  have chosen to defer it…" The reading voice in my head faded out, disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... found out that I hadn't made it to finals in extemp, which felt like yet

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  five cookies in one sitting will most likely lead to a tummy ache ... starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a ... ’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  is a tradition in Venezuela, where Dudamel is from. According to the ... programs in various neighborhoods and regions frequently come together…to ... ." To describe a grand passage, a dancer's thumping long legs. To describe

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

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  on top of the Great Dome 13. Contribute to How to Get Around MIT 14 ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  failed to come together in the summer of 2012, and I headed out to San ... their products to determine if they were successful. It struck me that, in order to truly improve the education of the millions of students in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my studies and to continue sitting in places. The two goals are related

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... and staff. In addition to teaming up with the hospital/medical van staff in Anaikatti, I also got a chance to interact with some of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... weeks touring places like the Media Lab, getting lost in the infinite

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009