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• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , it's because I woke up . . . to go study. Finals are coming up! You see ... , that gives me 1.5 more days to learn everything. The good part? I think I'm almost there. I actually think I'll be ready for Monday *crosses fingers

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  straight to the turkey? Although I suppose I've already had my turkey for ... waiting patiently for their dinner. You can see Jay '08 attempting to carve ... that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and ... Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  !!!!! Then it was back to shooting turkeys. I went for the 2.005 turkey next ... turkeys. It's not to be missed. *For more information, please visit the MIT ... other half who had to dress up as pilgrims instead of indians. That was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had ... problems for government to solve, why some political arguments are more ... theatrical artists. Provides an opportunity for students to discover their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  class for tennis so the only problem I face is finding the time to catch ... In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... world for the three months we call summer break. I’ve had the opportunity

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  know that he graduated first? =p). For some reason (to be discussed in the drama), he decided to leave off continuing at MIT for grad school ... - that's 21F.704, 7.02, and 5.12 for all ye eager beavers) this week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  found things to do, like observe the meat eaters preparing for their ... ventured off to find as many insane things as we could for free off of ... to study for my physics final Monday. But then it was Saturday. And

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  goal for this trip was to soak everything in, the environment, people ... To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  why it’s important to ask for help when you need it. Today is not the ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  I thought you all would like to know this exciting news! Schmill ... been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... reason to believe will yield a diverse and talented class," Hastings said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering ... immunology. Melis is (according to this list) the 38th MIT student to win the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  My Wednesday: 9:00 AM -- Swim Test at the Zesiger (Z) Center. For some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test, but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  was figuring out how to best explain/motivate a concept for other people ... , education felt like my anchor point. Something to aim for and aspire to. But somewhere along the way, the anchor point became a bit difficult for me to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... by temperature. You can also mouseover individual blocks to see data

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... figured it'd be a good time to get back into this regular vlogging routine

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight ... forge on... 3:57 pm -- you got 3 minutes to get off the road cars ... a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013