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• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already ... begins my Leap Day (which wasn't eventful, unless you count the fact that I ... : TODAY IS LEAP DAY! Leap Day, I'm sure you already know, comes from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  any salmonella bacteria that might grow in it. Thus, you can actually ... UROP in building 66, so I can drop off that package for you in 56." noun ... can meet you in kendall square right after that." Verbing weirds words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  they can register their schools for the exam. If you're an American ... -of-these, you can find your country's organizational information here. Your students can participate on any day from November 6 – 17. If you have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  enjoy about the subject, and I hope they can be useful to you in deciding ... to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think ... for information about what you can do with an economics degree (use the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  participate in at least one UROP during their undergraduate years!” Coming into MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... UROP in a field [annotation note="Many people use UROP as a way to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior ... (requirement can be fulfilled by an “Advanced Project”), Physics (if you are 8B ... The expectations for second semester seniors are high. By then, you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  i can usually stave this feeling off and it only manifests itself in ... in the coming days: i will update you with the transcription and let ... in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  farmer's market in the city on weekend mornings. You can get great deals on ... 't ride the subway enough for this to be worthwhile, you can just pay each ... room, I'm almost positive you can find it at Target. There's also a Bed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  necessarily majoring) in Course 15: Management Science. Attending professors ... AGGARWAL Professor Aggarwal specializes in international stock markets ... research focuses on mutual fund investments in international markets

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  disagree. There are three major decisions in the college admissions process and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... . I had the control over where I ultimately enrolled. I hope you can

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  home, we passed the Green Building. You may know it as the tallest building in Cambridge, and/or the live Tetris game, and/or the building that ... leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  prospective new hometown in the middle of March. Well. You can guess how that ... can rise to the occasion. You can plan for a full and vibrant future in ... topic no matter where you went: at home, at school, on the street, in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... questions that you may have for me. (Note that you can comment anonymously ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  us both if you can, but the transcript is the more important one for us ... Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give ... finished processing all mail and loaded everything into our system. If you

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  his neighbor can recognize it in the first few bars of the song), and i ... couldn't tell you when this phase began or when it ended, but i can tell you that i do remember listening to this a lot while sitting in 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  . In fact, if you don't do any Rush as a freshman then YOU'RE DOING IT ... fraternities as possible in order to really figure out which one is for you ... prohibitive, eliminating time you could be spending with other fraternities. In

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge ... least we actually did the pset!!!! and when we're living in this strange

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for ... invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a sestina. Fatima: If you didn’t know, a sestina is a poetry form consisting

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  you can pass their classes. Instead, a college is interested in ... MIT in your sights shows that you must believe in yourself to some extent, but it is possible that you (like many others) worry that you can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  , I was en route to spend another five years at MIT pursuing a PhD in ... there exist opportunities you may have never encountered in your life, it ... nonlinear, however, still at the "end" lead you to a place where you can be

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007