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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  with most other cryptography, no idea if I’ll ever get to apply it in the ... Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• 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
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and told us we would get 12:00 - 2:00 with Steven Levitt in early ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical ... get into MIT undergrad. And then every college in America could do the ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  .[/annotation]It turns out, though, that one of the best perks of living in Boston is how ... because none of us had ever been to Rhode Island before. In an attempt to ... nice to be in a more peaceful environment after the busyness of Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  freshmen class about CPW last year to give you an idea of how things will go ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  Guard was called in to put down drunken riots, I felt far outside the ... counted the days to graduation. Whereupon, in May 2009, I immediately ... . But I wanted to highlight the importance of match because when I was in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... ongoing event in rolling text". Apparently this used to be something that ... . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their ... walking to the end of the world (in Minecraft), has strong opinions about James Joyce, and thought about many things as she learned to swim in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  how they interact, particularly in the lab. Unsurprisingly, Germans speak to each other in German. But there are foreigners here too, a decent ... ;advantageous" for being recognized. But the decision to write in German wasn't

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  all weekend and getting lost in the tunnels trying to get to a far ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in ... ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  how my interview weekend went" entries. So seeing all she has to talk ... in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  send you an email in early December asking you how you would like to ... All QuestBridge College Match results are announced in early December ... be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... 's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... for my UROP supervisor to finish his phone call. In the meantime ... in fear of getting belittled by my peers for repetitive word choice

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  was even sent pictures to use in my blog. I think that's pretty darn ... was placed right in front of the main entrance to MIT on Massachusetts ... certification exam on Saturday. It was, um, ok. I guess. I find out how I did in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006