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• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  are many sides to the coin, but there is only one coin. And you can flip ... in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  productive, tiring and relaxing at the same time. I've learned that Python is ... that the walk to the supermarket is 40% slipping on ice and 60% slipping ... long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]\pi[/latex], and using the fact that a diameter [latex]d[/latex] is twice the radius ... and Freya E. '23 were there to witness the glory of that game.) I tried ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  that there is a difference between a bad question, a difficult question ... karate is enough to rid the planet of aliens should they invade earth, and ... there are so many other problems facing the world, and whether it's even a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  around 1 AM, and we submitted it to Devpost, the platform that HackMIT was ... breakfast, sat through the opening ceremony, and decided that we were not ... got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... staple and as a consequence the energy I had on a daily basis was limited ... mornings and more more energy in the day. So pick up a supply of vitamins

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  . Your desk is a near copy of the original ones. The oak shelves that fit ... Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here ... yet things seem to stay the same"]We Course 6 majors dominated the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of ... thing I love about MIT is that 90% of the student body has no idea how to ... and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  you could. And frankly, getting a B after all of that is something to be ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point. Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  stuff :-) You may have read elsewhere and on other blogs that there is a ... the start of fraternity rush, and there's going to be a lot of free food ... , bureaucracy, and litigation. A trip to the department of medical records proved

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is ... 've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a ... the same time, the records office is processing those extra supplemental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... look forward to bumping into them on the Infinite and watching them grow ... rejected applicant - I know that my feelings do not compare. But at the same

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... ’s important to actually know the material. This is easier and harder, depending

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the ... /that/ spice, and I have no clue where to find the cans of whatever, all ... . But during the summer, I have access to a car, and a[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  notion that college would require of me the same adjustments familiar to ... a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... sticker in my hostel since the artist also stayed there and left a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while ... campaign to feed and clothe the homeless. Even students on a budget are ... struggle to put food on the table everyday, and I thought to myself, "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... existence, and seeing as the fanbase subscribes to a TV show that not only ... original concept, and a picture of the character for comparison.    To

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  got there. I spent a while standing in the station and cursing. If I ... across the parking lot and to the Porter T station, which is right next to ... , and you should be sure that the one you searched Yahoo Maps for is in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006