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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  put up some time in march 2020. it's still up. it goes to show how much ... people in esp who own thinkpads, and from time to time it gets sent a ... love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum ... sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  Office to the Undergraduate Advising & Academic Programming (UAAP) office ... fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and ... folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• 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 / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• 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 / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  their college transition. In order to prepare, I reached out to Crissy on ... Weekend in April and really finding their people here. We also seem to ... that we value your empathetic ways, but we want to learn about you in

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  wrong in some sense to not get the local food (i.e. Spanish food while in ... ’ve taken it on.[/annotation]In addition to travel journal entries of Italy ... on it early enough to still be let in. The owner was kind to let us

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024
• 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 / 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