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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... Match - you don't just get the Admissions Office's view of things

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  'll be getting married in September -- our wedding website is here, for ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... how excited we were to graduate despite the rain (admittedly, this was ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software ... for the dorm, I'm on call in case of emergency, and I get free housing ... this dichotomy in which you have the power to either save the world or

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... . But i have decided that now my only aim is to get in MIT so i need your ... school to get admission in 1 of the best college like MIT. Do you think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white ... room at absolutely no cost. According to the MIT List center’s website ... ! (hopefully).   If you win the lottery, you get to go back to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  .com, dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, or some crossword solver website. Every once in ... would allow me to rearrange the rows in a way that would give more ... letter in each word of the meta. Someone in the audience shouted out, "how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... ). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  the two? Would you ever toss a coin to decide, in this case?" I get ... because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick ... really need them and don't have them, your counselor can expect to get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the ... " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human ... learning how to actively learn, pursue topics, and be inspired by the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  up to get help, with no entrance tests or requirements whatsoever. In ... universities in the world. Are you worried that you have no qualifications to ... Professor Eileen Scanlon from The Open University, told us how in another

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  developed the technology to control how they explode--maybe you could major in ... , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to ... that somebody getting a bloody nose in USA-Italy just meant it was eve ... system and advancement of teams to the round of 16... how France are almost

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  know, you get temped in a dorm, but if you don't like it, you can opt to ... would be stuck in it, especially since I didn't get to go to my CPW and ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as ... learn, and there are many cool MechE classes I won't be able to fit in to ... , just from talking to people, but I know so little about the programs in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  until I can get home and watch the show in its full glory. Yeah, I really ... headed on over to the Project Runway website to check out Ms. Eng's bio ... you go if you want to spend six years making toys and get a PHD out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in 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