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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  you probably should if you ever want to go to medical school instead of ... popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... multibillion-dollar-a-year business," he says. "They must know what they're doing ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... institutions, governments, businesses, NGOs, and individuals are addressing the ... , and, worst of all, undermining each other in the quest to gain

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... of hydrocarbon-coated magnetic nanoparticles on increasing diffusivity ... letter at the end of this week. Best Regards Birgit Heil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness ... hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But subconsciously, my amygdala was processing all kinds of emotions. These emotions

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best ... Hello MIT Class of 2013! Here are some things that admitted students ... . Here it is: MIT Class of 2013. (...and international students can join

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  's radio station; was part of "Pippin," the school musical; is in the school ... office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... ,388 ft). It is an active volcano and a well-known symbol of Japan that is ... devouring bowls of chicken, eggs and rice, and buying a backpack cover that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... Florida for a week. We saw a high school friend one of the days and in a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... relationship with schooling as “unconventional” nor do I think of myself as an ... expectations of school have never quite made sense to me, it’s more productive to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... accomplish by the end of the school year. ... With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the excitement last year: a few members of MIT's Musical Theatre Guild decided that ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  concept of supporting local businesses, artists, and farmers. My all ... gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on ... more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news event from the month of June 2006? This entry is actually about pictures from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night and then continue blogging regularly once every couple of weeks

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  graduate schools, some of whom said "you applied to our graduate program ... , as a celebration of all the stress of senior fall: graduate school ... four day Amazon tour before flying out of Quito and returning to school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014