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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  . Finally, I went to Allison's and watched Sin City and as a result I can't sleep for days so I figured, hey, what the heck, I might as well write a ... course, I turned down a job as head literary critic for the New York Times

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... Meetings... it's a busy time! While I am back in Boston, look for my next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... , when the future (the one where you have to be a responsible adult and ... many and answers are few. Things are changing at a rapid pace and I don

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  convincing argument that can be made for the concept of moral luck, wherein a ... this suggest that we can somehow rely on it even further for a more ... force for a lot of our moral principles. Earlier, I mentioned a moral

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a ... games to cheer for this week (one was tonight). I went straight from the ... Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  credit for calculus from passing our math diagnostic. i convinced myself ... WESTERN MUSIC. IT IS SUPER COOL."]i was sad and hass-less for a couple of days.[/annotation] i am a f r a i d to cook for myself and realize that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  , and deep, and systemic. I don’t know where a solution would even start ... . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  in general? I have a completely different point of view from those ... job and being out of the loop for a few years can really reduce your ... just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  my vlogs, where I can see over the course of the week just how I grow ... with every day that comes and I want it to change. For those of you who ... ="aligncenter" width="4096"] art from alina s. '24 that summarizes what i'm talking about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  got a Pottermore account last April. As it happened, I was far from the ... straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... . Unfortunately, I can't pull the blankets back over my head and go back to sleep ... got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  up quite a bit. I really wish I'd been single for my freshman fall. my ... total on MIT campus; even so, I can't even fathom dating a freshman. first ... relationship and can focus on what makes me happy instead. I finally feel like a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  activities for the parents other than a reception and some financial aid ... where we tell you how much we love you, followed by some of the best a ... /or spouse away from MIT with the promise that she/he can return in the fall

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... one class per year that I really, really, really look forward to. A

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  January 1. They can arrive and be processed well after this date and you ... -14 days for the processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted directly to your MyMIT account from Naviance or the ApplyWithUs site

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the performance tomorrow, but for now, I leave you with probably one of the most interesting things I've seen done with butter in a very long time. Yes

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  from a college application. When I wrote essays for undergraduate ... . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  , I just found out that Biodiesel@MIT, a student group started by Joe ... won a $25,000 grant from MTVU and GE. Seriously! $25,000! Won by ... MIT. So I got this e-mail this morning from my 10.491: Integrated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... variability depending upon who is responding So instead of giving a number, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It ... , a significant number come from parents whose children are years away ... , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023