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• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right ... perform amazingly at the school of your choice. So I'll be lame and close

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  universities out there (some of which actually admit kids with no AP's!). Many of ... enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an ... "gonna" isn't just verbal slang- it's really becoming a new word. Look at ... Headquarters Office, at [email protected]. That way he can answer more of your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  seen a new post appear at the bottom of the main page, the date hadn ... you drag over all those colored boxes at the top of your screen and look at all of the options that drop down, we get to choose from those. We

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  reading this post will end up at other colleges next year. If you are one of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is ... live. At the end of REX, you can enter the readjustment lottery, where

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  -"sellout" culture that's prevalent at MIT, I feel like a good number of people would ... are ones that offer a lot of fulfillment. Things are a bit hypocritical ... acceptance of the fact that they are a student at Yale. I know that getting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  practice. Yay! We grab dinner at one of the few restaurants in the area, and ... A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ! ================================================= It could have been any number of early mornings my freshman year at MIT ... graduation. For most of my time at the Institute, I fully believed them, using ... any of my academic classes at MIT prepared me for many the challenges I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  biomimetics at the University of Bath in England and has collaborated with MIT ... of Project Runway at Television Without Pity to keep myself up to date ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... again! Here at CTD, there are all sorts of ludicrous rules for the ... crosswalk at the same time we did. Anyway, one of the boys, not noticing that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  of it. having exhausted the poetry workshops offered at MIT, i am ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  ! This video is pretty much just a compilation of me squinting at the ... .S. Victory! Beat the Sunday at midnight deadline :) P.S.S. Welcome new ... Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  up-close look at the stadium and moat. If you're a new freshman and ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of the activity in my neck of the woods. But first, a pic of my hallmate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Nuova (The New Life).[/annotation] And in one of his hands it seemed that ... of my new culinary style: dry aging, [annotation note="cj: jacky likes ... , and controlled decay that is my new life, I dream of dinner parties and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  remember that in the few moments of time I tried my hand at creating music ... was the same thing my freshman year at MIT. Everything was new and ... with the same sort of perhaps overwrought glory. It was a new year, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... Array (of radio telescopes) in New Mexico. This is what the Whirlpool ... here with me, and one of them turned 21 three weeks ago. I mentioned that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  looking into the possibility of working at an institute for blind students ... have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist monastery 30 minutes outside of Kathmandu. This includes teaching English

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... more details. You learn from your mistakes and get better at making ... this loop of thinking in almost every interaction, conversation

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the ... new story, Jenkins says. [read the rest of the interview] [read a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005