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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small ... girl at arm’s length, so that the symbol he drew on the board sits

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  stretch where we didn't take anyone from the waitlist. So, it's hard ... go quite so badly. Thus, it's likely that most people on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  10 days rowing, eating and sleeping. And video review of course. It’s a ... about Israel and strength participant’s Jewish identity and connection to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  , Kaitlin '14, Nima '14, Sherry '14, Olivia '14) photo by Olivia '14's camera ... we still know that we raced our best. Plus, the women’s 4th place

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  seriously considering schools in the U.S. for college; I have my fingers ... in Cambridge, Massachusetts :) Jeanne and I - with Prospective '15s

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  give you a sneak preview of what the cover's going to look like :S Isn ... with my face though...) P.S. In case you haven't already, you can order

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  with the weight they bore. The plums that filled my mother’s basket ... faltered. My mother’s eyes were still dancing from the plum incident. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  family’s better parties. You can do these sorts of things when you don ... ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it’s

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  climactic scene of Helvetica, in which some typographer guy opens a 1950s ... Students. Thanks to Sara '10's vice presidencing skillz, MIT SPS borrowed a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  , she was also named as one of Glamour Magazine’s top ten college women in ... recognition. Alia has also led many other programs relating to poverty, women’s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  "Robert/Bob"'s?) *** Professor Junot Diaz, associate professor in Course 21

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  arguments. more information... Fall: S. Strang, L. Perelman, M. Poe Spring: S

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  closely watched over by my Director of Studies (DoS). My DoS will then

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  Day, the MIT I/S Department (now IS&T) hired student developers to ... , debug, and generally try to break the technologies they were developing, I/S

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... big, BIG thank you to everyone who responded so positively to Matt’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  pretty much say that they all look pretty similar. :-P Line 14's was like a ... was given by RATP after each group’s presentation. We were reminded to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  's and 5's on all tests. I'll pause here to add that I frequently saw

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

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

  

  likely to be young and male. In the 1990s, the average MIT student was both ... understandable; but in the early 1990s an even higher percentage of the students at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to ... helping us is extremely nice. The peach boba is almost like a slush. It’s ... clothes for the Banquet tomorrow with Sarah’s cute little iron. It is really

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023