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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... in classes but it's something you really can't delve into until junior ... could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you ... thereafter, you can check your decision at: decisions.mit.edu Log in ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  In his most famous book, James Carse categorizes human activity into ... , scientific discovery, humanism, etc... When I discovered this dichotomy in ... beautiful ideals in this world. To shout from the past and into the future

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... trouble following these tips, I recommend reading CMU / Parallel Universe ... intellectual reader to draw the conclusion themselves." 3. Put song lyrics in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my ... , etc) at my own pace. In the fall, I started kindergarten. Summers 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  class, he offered to schedule a meeting with me later in the week to ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... freebie in the sense that it requires little effort or thought to write

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change in my perception of what makes me happy. This all sounds Hallmark card

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie ... lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  . At any other university, people whipping out a chess board during ... crowd going to watch and join in. We are really cool like that. MIT OOH

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  test case makes me forget the hours it took in the first place. Instant ... feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  normal day, we'd be gathered in Killian Court, and I'd be kneeling on the ... day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... , Commencement is the most beautiful day of the year. Even in this strange pandemic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  need to decide which classes to take and where that will lead me. That in ... shuttle, race a car, finance a project based on limited data in the face of ... . Last April I faced a major decision when choosing between two job offers

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  ever!) being the best class ever. All the way back in September, we talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in ... designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you ... you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... information: Students can request an extension of the May 1 deadline in order to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... . In order to double-major, you need 270 units beyond the GIRs. So in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if, if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024