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• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  'Belle and Sebastian University.' I was like, 'Belle and Sebastian! Awesome ... '80s hair metal. ("Next year I'm going to college, and there we will ... much fun as it is being pompous and loathed by everybody, just don't do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  reading day, which, for our office, is every Monday, Wednesday and Friday ... distractions) but instead stay home and read applications. This morning I read applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  deadline!), and complete it before Halloween, assuming you're in an area ... your teachers that are writing your evaluations, and be sure to thank ... and ask if their English teacher's recommendation has come in, or if we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves ... opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That ... Black Friday sale where I'd have to snatch clothes quick and fast and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  academic enterprise and then offering those who clear the bar substantial ... classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth ... and worthwhile; the blogs are a specific example of the general case

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  members to Casino Royale (awesome!) and Body Worlds 2 (barf!). I dropped 6 ... Non-linear dynamics which deals a lot with chaos/fractal patterns and ... for fall 2007! pfffft!), we offer at least math 10 classes in nonlinear

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and ... the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  've been TAing this IAP) is tomorrow evening, and I am excited. The teams have been working very hard, and dealt well with setbacks. There was an ... accidentally shorted their battery and their robot caught on fire! But now they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  Last night, my roommate and I ventured (slightly) beyond MIT's campus ... Danes, Jason Schwartzman, and Steve Martin star in this supposed comedy that has promise but lacks substance and believability. Claire Danes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then ... seat for you right here.” Madeline sat down on his knee and they surrounded her, some standing and some kneeling, and sang “Do You Believe in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... learned a lot about MIT history and trivia.) I've said it before and I ... stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  comes in on time, writing last minute stories, and essentially making sure ... me and the two other news editors to make sure that you get your bi ... so, as me and the other news editors were a part of the survey

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its winners political figures like Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos and David Souter; scientists like Edwin Hubble, Robert J. van de Graaff and Brian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... courtyard of East Campus, straight off the T from the airport, and saw a half ... . Past the roller coaster there was a two-story fort, and beyond that (and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  things I was planning on doing during IAP...and then I got distracted by ... , I had Orientation at the Broad Institute for my UROP there - which ... and while loops, lists/tuples, and various other things. I'm enjoying it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn't be happier ... Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  admissions site is really something, huh? I just look and I see categories, endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT Campus and General Institute Requirements and MIT's Influence on the World

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and ... -wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  have and ruin it spontaneously on a whim, because every little state ... -level and also not important past analogy purposes"]I also want to talk about ... macroscopic, meaning it isn't about the individual atoms and particles bumping

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025