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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind ... I get home for holidays? What will happen to me if I get sick? What

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  signed up for an iPad. I decided to transfer my data from my personal i ... plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to ... who made this, but thank you, and thank you to my friend Eren for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  't sure if I was going to make it through my first semester classes, yet ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  and bad haircuts. Wednesday night, I braved the long lines to wait for ... for the art alone. Thursday was originally going to be exciting as well. I hoped to get free tickets to Carmen from the Council for the Arts

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  't get to have him for 18.02, but his lectures are nothing short of ... -'10). O is "undeclared sophomores". Forgot to list CMS though (16 students). =/ Hahaha it's actually a pretty hard to read graph, but it's sequential by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for ... conservatory for classical guitar next year. I can't even begin to tell you how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  and to have them come up to you afterwards and thank you for what you ... manufactured by Merck. The lady seemed eager for all of us to apply to Merck as ... Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty ... semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... Euclid. They are also related to Mersenne primes: every Mersenne prime corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  , comes up to me as I'm headed back to the tent for debrief, comes up to me ... myself!  I also get to buy my own gear and do whatever I want, no coaches ... shouldn't ignore!  Want to go eat hamburgers for breakfast?  Go ahead.  Want

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  me to want to dive in and think about what "work" will mean for future ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to Hollywood directors to auto mechanics and constructor workers and teachers

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  ’t actually have to completely define us if we would only let go of them for a ... My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day, but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for ... what you have to do now? Chill out. Seriously, pat yourselves on the ... varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  the story I told. But ultimately, I want to let this story speak for ... ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn ... camera. Hey, I'm not a morning person, and I can't remember to do ... :( what should i do to prepare for the tryouts in the fall? First and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  's sense of self-worth clipped to the quick. So for those who are feeling a ... A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... . It was originally intended to be an in-person event, but the committee ... made them feel more welcome to the MIT community. It's hard for first

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  up some experiments, let the ones that need to run for awhile incubate ... time for a UROP). 1pm - 2:30pm Off to cellular neurobio (7.29). Hunger ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... and radio shows, and used to run one for my college newspaper, so it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... wasn't entirely convinced of that. I needed to see this for myself. I ... works for tons of people; I'm partial to the setup of frat rush, where you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007