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• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... wrote awesome, popular books, it sounded like a good place to be. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... a video game, or goofing off with friends to listen. If you want some ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  a very intimate setting and an extraordinary opportunity to really get to know about a company. I was seated at a table with three other ... set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a ... have to: a) take private lessons b) be in Chamber Chorus, Chamber Music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike ... would be. Fortunately, we were allowed to give a little paragraph about ... is a man beyond description. He has been known to compete in dance

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit sporadic during my trip. I've had a chance to think about the recent thread

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... down a list of things to remember. Things that, in an ideal world, we ... to for a couple of months. Some of my favorite organized internet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  fits you. (That's a pretty sweet thing that's unique to MIT - at the end ... , and pick someone to live with. It's a pretty flexible system, unless you want to be a part of Residence Based Advising, at which point you must

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... junior year’s Engineering Leadership Lab (ELL) wanted to have a reunion ... students in GEL program, and I love the opportunity to meet students from a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram ... embarrassing, and one awesome. I'll let you decide which is which. A Trip to Mount Auburn Hospital I admit that a trip to the hospital wasn't really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... hearing other a capella groups perform, my desperation to join the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research ... the design of a bioreactor. Basically, the goal of the bioreactor is to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... information? I have SO MUCH I want to share with you! A4) I am excited that you ... pitch" about your Maker projects. You have a short amount of time to

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes ... , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or ... to display two textbook PDF pages side-by-side, and has a battery life

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  by. Now, it took me a minute to understand what he said, because the ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... with a cliffhanger--Ruth asking about an entry on David Hasselhoff. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the ... to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best person to ask. I'm considering applying to be a blogger, but I'm concerned ... learning communities). I'm hoping to do a spring UROP, too. I'm pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by ... funds that way. This blog entry is a humble request for you to check out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012