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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  Health or the counseling deans. Look here for my account of a relatively ... rate (I don't remember actual numbers), and that's for a reason ... ?" MIT is a very noctural place. Nighttime is prime time for both tooling

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on ... to figure out what admissions officers are looking for and it is the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  association sponsored a luncheon today for the acceptees and their genetic ... residential dining: 1. Buying groceries and cooking for yourself or in a group ... -salad-sandwich cafes and food trucks. 3. Joining a fraternity/sorority/independent living

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  currently looking into finding a new UROP to work with in the coming semester ... people learn, and I am currently on the hunt for a way that I can make ... lines of, “The decisions are ready.” My heart skipped a beat, and my mom

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  with a true week of my authentic (and half-assed) cooking over IAP. I ... and hotdog (and my friend Nicole got a philly cheesesteak) for lunch one ... Toronto on the 27th, and started off with a meal that captured the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  final assignment was due with a draft and ask for their feedback early on ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing-my-face-with

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a ... So philosophical entries with advice on the right strategies for ... about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  . And we wanted to provide their 30 homeless youth with warm clothing for ... homeless people in Boston this Thanksgiving. We partnered with a homeless ... , Strideline joined our mission as our national sponsor and donated a pair of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a ... for Malgorzata and Melanie. We gathered at a restaurant that specializes ... and turned back… Our conversation carried on for a few minutes. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  I'm currently dealing with writer's block, to be honest, and I ... month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a ... inadequate for my needs. And also when its spacebar and Enter key broke, so it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . Scheduling and Registration DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (for a formal overview, go ... , Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a ... experience at MIT. For a full catalog of Wellness & Support resources

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  unruly and fit with my general comportment. Here’s a picture of me from my ... center, who would buzz me down to a 2 or 3 and then I’d just let it grow ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  many other dishes. I am a "weekday vegetarian", and there's always both a ... tips and tricks for the farmer's market this summer, because I learned a ... (life is both hard and weird without a conventional living situation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  secret room in the back and found a display copy for us to play with in the ... for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  (design), and 2A-3 (materials science). Most MechEs are 2A; those in course ... of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may ... loading docks. 2. v the act of finding cruft and hoarding it 3. n MIT

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the ... entire admissions office and replace essays with a meme submission form ... she saved me with her Pro Tour Guide Skills™ on a related note did you

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  signing up for the Clase de Conversación y Composición, a conversation class ... experiences so far at MIT. For the first nineteen and a half years of my life, I ... from my IAP class, including Profesora, went out for a lunch reunion and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  . Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, for their work on "Search Frictions ... markets, explaining why people who are looking for work and companies ... applicants - meaning, all y'all! It's also an excellent number of years for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  Reports and the catalogs, another great source is looking at the Wayback for ... the 1980s. And Van Zante gave me a few leads with an email. He writes ... picture of what Steer Roast looks like, and the relevant part is: […W]ith

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  , Professor Lindgren arranged a "back-stage visit" for us to see Yo-Yo Ma, and ... paradoxically ask us to accept, if only provisionally and for a time, this half ... , hahaha) we had our final session for our tenure as Burchard Scholars, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010