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• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... decided to shift the deadline in part to provide[annotation note="As well as ... renew themselves for all the work we have left to do in Regular Action. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... .112 and 8.01 problem sets this week, working in huge, huge study groups

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  as close as you'll get to a home-cooked meal. On a weekly basis, food ... really don't get to eat freshly fried, extra crunchy, warm on the ... Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... in his book, The Mechanism of Religion: “We today are inclined to see ... seventeenth century, Science was considered to be in support of Christianity, so

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the world, and if you're lucky, you get to publish something of your own ... different topics and latest in scientific research. I should go to more of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... . There's also a huge indoor track field, but I couldn't get in because I ... filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it ... music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  unrelated to math. In retrospect, I’m not entirely sure how I should ... people in general. I’m not sure how to avoid this flavor of ire. I’m not ... was trying to manage through humor. I hated LinkedIn. I knew how people

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  Society in America), we get to pick any topic (course-related, of course) we ... is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5 ... all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that ... ), things to make us react in one way or another (Linsanity), things to make

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  check in, watching older students smiling widely when they get to put ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the charles, noticing how the smallest shifts in seating rock the boat, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big ... 't even ask to live! we just get put here without any say in the matter so ... to where i am now i hope that i will get to show other people how much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at predicting outcomes of NFL games. But seeing how this post-season has been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  poetry in Spanish, and learning how to code intelligent systems. It has ... to dedicate. But simultaneously I think how much effort you put in ... blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  getting rather long. My research experience will have to be represented in ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009