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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and, like, get your PhD in doing that. 6. Why bother to photograph and ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... inter-floor activity fund whereby the entire dorm gets $3000 a term to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I ... was crazy. Time for holiday cheer. But no time to get lazy. 2nd ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... ; far be it from me to weigh in on it with empirical evidence. But what I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there ... random rock-paper-scissor tournaments, assaulting people to get them interested in working for MIT's ambulance - "HEY! RYAN! YOU WANT TO RIDE AN

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• 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 / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works ... else who had gotten into MIT and struggled to meet other kids. In ... 't know how to confess these reasons, because they seemed so shallow

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  ), please contact Michael Yang in the Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch with your financial aid officer ... 've already said NO to MIT: Thank you for having applied; it was great getting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... -generated censorship, or how people manipulate social media to suppress speech. While I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the ... for the people in my life, to ensure that I will see them. I am mindful ... it still goes wrong? How many people is it possible for me to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to ... 've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college ... a blogger: “There’s the feeling of lying in bed and not wanting to get ... ’ve found are normal and, hopefully, some guidance for how to get through them

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak ... while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool ... kids how to read. So have no fear kids, the fun never stops when you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  friends in Central Ohio. Calm upperclassmen who taught me how to pronounce ... . Rejoiced in the decided spring. Next, ready to blast off into our dreams ... sure to check if there is a Summer Send-Off Event in your area HERE

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  ’s his duty to chat about the Yankees and the Red Sox with the person in ... didn’t get their farecards in advance. Meanwhile, my sister and I, with ... to cave in). At one point, the crowd even began to chant “Louder

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... during May if I wanted to squeeze in a respectable 8-week internship. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  !"). However, another group gets to explore the heating of Subway sandwiches in ... school's production, remember. I will get to posting integral answers soon ... a page from the book of NELLY! Because it is getting HOT in HERE!" We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  gender. We're not going to balance things in a school just to have balance ... position in another college, only to find out a few weeks later that MIT ... so, how many students they need to admit. At this point, colleges will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you suggest that they, um, need lessons on how to dress and flirt. Matt not only ... that two people sat on every step in the aisles. Props to Kevin, whose

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005