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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like ... -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of ... I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  i spent spring break writing. writing blog posts, writing things for our informatics olympiad, writing emails for the puzzle club. the time i didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... 's over"). I can't overstate how wonderful it was -- like a third way of ... about. I got to fly home and spend two weeks with my family; I came back

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  how to play! I'm also growing my annual IAP beard. I hate facial ... of IAP. I guess. I can't think of how to end this entry... well, I can ... Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  would allow kegs to be more safely and easily transported down stairs (I ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... bicyclists (One thing I really think is cool about 2.009 are the little demo

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  point (though I hope it will be, and am backing it, because I would like a ... them would be great and cool. But the project he's currently working on ... , and I'm currently a freshman studying Computer Science and Philosophy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  well, to see who might be interested. I found five who would be around ... the Stata Center. I was chatting with the folks at Academic Media ... future episode, I said, what if we did a theme episode, one just looking at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I ... . While trivia can sometimes be useful and interesting, I wish this scholarship competition would put more emphasis on analytical thinking. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Bohemian Rhapsody or one of the other two songs that I know how to play on ... 's baby really happened. Okay, this entry is not really negative, but I ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  : Resume consumption of knowledge. 3:30 PM: Study break! I decide that I can afford to treat myself to quality relaxation time, so I spend half an hour ... brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff, I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  close. Boxes will be packed, old psets that I will probably never look at ... world for the three months we call summer break. I’ve had the opportunity to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  bad idea. But my friend, you would be very wrong. Although I ended up ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  team in high school? Now you got me thinking about the regional and how i ... really good. Arturo wrote: Congratulations! I know how challenging an EMT ... I'm not sure exactly how the emergency response system works in other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... context of your entire MIT application. Before I continue, it is worth

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... which there is no going back. I experienced… Apple Juice Liberation. You

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008