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• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... make decisions for you, even if they turn out to be good in the end. Do ... People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  turkeys into oil and blogging, I actually don't have time to participate in ... . Also, I wasn't too interested in the prize of a VIP card to any of Boston ... Burdick's, Cardullo's, and La Fromaggio. Meet in Lobby 7 to join tour. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  in the East Campus courtyard. Artemis '18 and I decided to make it ... YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with ... "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the ... dormitories, Maseeh Hall, from 7 to 9, to fundraise and spread awareness. Our goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... MIT Admissions plans to make Regular Action decisions available ... decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  MIT. If you have not yet done so, you will need to register for a MyMIT account. The account provides a number of benefits, including: Access to the ... 's calendar of application-related dates: Early Action October 20: Last day to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... roofdeck. East Campus has its courtyard in which the grass refuses to grow ... FSILGs tend to locate themselves in whatever nice house they can acquire

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards. "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  , and between 45 min and an hour to write the response, usually, in ... encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  taking the bus down even further south to visit my dad in Woodstock ... until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... been in many others, so it feels more or less over. I'm in Louisville

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a type of IBD, through her UROP in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  wasn't the smartest person in the class -- it was great to have friends ... , informatics, and biology. In each country there's a selection process to try to ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the ... even sent a police officer down in Crystal River, Florida, to check it ... does seem to be accidental (and also her name is redacted in the police

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  , the amazing MIT Asian Dance Team. In which this guy uses a yo-yo to ... crawled to Next House exhausted, stopped in the lounge to talk about ... This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps ... reel across the country to help prospectives understand the place. But what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017