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• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  , but are a few that I'm familiar with and can think of as I'm sitting ... The selection process continues here, and there's not much I can ... admits and mailing the early action decisions as soon as we can. I'll keep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  , I already have slides and a presentation to VCs from a class last ... eavesdrop on a ridiculous conversation you're having with a third party. I'm not just saying this to say it, I'm saying it because I just had a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  leaving, and firetrucks parking. I watched the scene for a little bit and ... started. For a period of about two weeks they were CONSTANTLY outside, waiting to be let back in. You can actually hear the Simmons fire alarm from

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by ... interrupt my sleep (and nearly give me a heart attack - I'm not so keen on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  individual with spunk and character. As a result, I strived for A's, worked ... lies ahead. Although I can't say I remember everything from every AP ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my Multivariable final this morning; let us waddle in the Aftermath for a little bit ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... importance of collaboration originated from my work in theater long before I ... rigorous," but it hints at how even a music class can embrace technology in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  paved way for larger, more complex ones…and I recently got a sense of ... had learned thus far to developing drugs for a certain heart disease. I ... scavenge the kitchen or hope for a free-food e-mail to land in my inbox. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  / n) - d for some d. After a few trials, I settled on d = 0.4mm ... neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  so that I could go home for less than a thousand dollars. The fried ... semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for ... staying in Cambridge for Thanksgiving, and I understand why now (so much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  admissions process from the general masters program). Next, I emailed my friend ... her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... which I'm interviewing pay for travel and lodging expenses during the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  I went to work for about a half-day before taking our bunny, Abby ... family, and we had a lovely time. I made snickerdoodle cookies and blueberry pie for the family's annual gathering, and Adam and I made our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  , which I really appreciate) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1: An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  for them. Actually, they'll pay you! I mean, it's not a huge amount, but ... even applied for a fellowship that will (if I win it) pay me $45,000 a ... Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line ... two women conversing in Spanish. And I generally throw in a bit of Tamil

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... , preparing for fall career fair, and you people? I’m only a human, after all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked ... around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... Twitter, Instagram, and tumblr, among others. You can think (as I do) of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  to make it look appealing. So I eventually settled for a 16 gallon ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I ... teacher's classroom), but I knew I wanted one in my dorm. After doing a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very ... duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013