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• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  yourself as much as others love you! There’s a point to learning how to do ... writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  have a current blog, please send a link to it. If your blog is locked ... . Short Answer Essays Short answer #1 - In a paragraph or two, describe ... of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to ... on a safe academic environment as well as emergency medical service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week all year long. We provide these vital services
• Blog / Personal Travel

  look who i found in vienna hi joon

  

  [annotation note = "joon looks much more aesthetic than i did in my picture jesus"][/annotation][annotation note = "in case you were wondering this is true outside of pictures as well"][/annotation]

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  My first personal entry, how exciting! For some background info about me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... with another area of your choice, it's called 2A), I live in Next House

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have ... to go back in time and correct mistakes or retake tests. 3. A little

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory ... will aid you in designing, conducting, analyzing and presenting a field

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been ... . There wasn't much to see in Bedford, except for this old train and a 10

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Application is live and available for download. A few important notes and ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There ... entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  squirrel--isn’t it cute? how does it survive? why is it scared? Pluck a blade ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... . Score 2300+ on the SAT. Earn a 4.0 GPA. Participate in math team

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  , Senior House is one of the most inexpensive dorms to live in and has a ... I phrased this in a way that is obviously sarcastic, since I feel like ... in a way that is tailored to what students feel will best help them

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... sink in a pint glass of Guinness and rise in an anti-pint glass. It

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  Saturday at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. The event was a smashing ... courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... , turkey, stuffing, pasta. The event space was in a gorgeous arc shape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the ... their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... in the 20s because a large number of Macy's employees were new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much ... coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as ... . :-) Today, I had lunch with Daniel and Ben at Anna's Taqueria, a quick

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  message will self-destruct in a minute. Bye! So that was it and then we ... ...wait for it... A YOYO THAT DOUBLES AS HEADPHONES, so that is what we did ... Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out ... women in another. If you’ve heard of the play, it may have been in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a ... in style - on a Chinook helicopter. As we boarded the bird at Endicott, I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. The weather conditions were far

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... that want other majors, but 2, 6, and 18 are the big three. This is how ... really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  joys in my life have been derived from small, private moments--a lot of ... to has involved me working on abstract problems with my head in a book ... 'm definitely feeling less stressed at the moment than I have in a long time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017