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• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... go to. It's now evident how much MIT throws at its students. I'd be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to ... waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... specializes in cannoli, which they'll supposedly ship fresh to anywhere in the ... that they weren't actually in Boston to see me; they actually came up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... to see how it goes in the future. Lastly, I watched Dororo, which I got ... to get through it all. I wasn't sure how I would get through some weeks

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  Cambridge: the closing times of cafes, the bus routes and T stops, how to get ... how very green things are in Massachusetts. Tuesday Writing in the ... my first task was to get ice cream with my advisor, her colleagues, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any ... the amount of digits we can commit to our long term memory. Therfore, in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  , with a when2meet. in true mit fashion, this attempt turns out to ... will blog all the way to [annotation note="a gorgeous city park in ... [annotation note="to be explained in a later installation... some day... one day

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  shows like Adventure Time, I'm learning how to deal with change in healthy ... . I loved how colorful it was. I loved how it seemed to subvert ... judgments, and how the show seemed to tut at me for it, showing me that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  why it's so hard to get women to consider careers in engineering and ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  take, what to major in if you don't know what to major in, how to talk to ... 'm actually here to talk about, albeit in my characteristically verbose but ... in that. Thankfully, you do have a wonderful resource available to you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the ... question, how much does getting recruited help you in the admissions process ... to get us your Mid-Year Grade Report as soon as possible! parent asked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  bikini. You see Stephanie get the message, clap her hand to her face in ... show you that MIT students have tremendous creative gifts in addition to their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  , it feels exciting. How grateful I am to get to be all these different ... : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the ... central meeting around 6PM, and that's when things started to get interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and life.” In other words, to help you! From Jacob: “We believe that you ... counselor to get real college essays and relevant advice. Through

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  around Boston in this outfit, so I borrow one person’s jeans and get a ... promise to drop off the pants at Baker when I get a chance. Fast forward to ... these genes. Sarah: as long as you bring ligase… its getting hot in here

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... advertising the event.   This Wednesday, 3/14 at 5pm in room 2-102, the

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  wanted to tie in the Olympics somehow, but no such luck there. Sorry, Paris. So anyway, read on to find out how we planned and executed the greatest ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a fraternity, so I spent a lot of time at our house, getting to know my brothers ... , establish my place, and figure out what I really wanted to get out of this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang ... bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006