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• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  biggest problem with this option is probably cost, and flexibility: to get what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the ... ) that Shaw's gives a discount to MIT students: you get 5% off with your ID

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get ... : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... ignoring my noise complaint more in any way? Thanks :( sorry to be whiny

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  flexibility in choosing your classes; you get to pick six electives from any of ... convince your GRT to get you a cat or dog and keep it in their apartment ... I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start ... ’t undergraduates be allowed to hang out in this area”"] societal rules ... , the word Rule is capitalized when referring to the November Rule in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  show off their unique cultures, get to know you, and help you get a ... MITERS. It's a really incredible atmosphere to immerse yourself in, where ... do. And with so many fun, unique things to try and cover in 4 days, you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I do well in high school to get into a good college. I do well in college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  . Everything seems to be falling into place. My birthday fell in early January ... access to really great live music in Boston and Cambridge. I definitely did ... bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  . The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization ... and over in my head like a broken record: "deferred is not rejected." It's the only way to keep from getting sad about some folks I really want

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with ... for me, anyway, writing poems is a way to become grounded in reality

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In ... . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  individual merits. Maybe they'd both get in. Maybe neither would get in. And of ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who ... 's mostly random, though I'll have more to say about sorting in future posts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a ... 'm doing the IB course with HL Math, Chem ang Bio. Say if I get admitted to ... -- they're different) to the courses at MIT. In my statistics class (9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you ... 're not done yet! When you get to campus for orientation you'll stay in your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... three years this place has finally gotten to you and broken down all your ... have a positive impression of) everyone in the room 7pm: you get free

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  give in to the hype that males aren't allowed to enjoy things that may be ... in nods to our fanbase--check out these background characters:    That ... , and Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski. In any case, I decided to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  may have never stumbled across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people ... my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... be subtitled in broken Italian. Despite Bill slicing through lichens ... there to do in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Well, not too much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... be worth showing up early to get the form signed. The first thing I ... I've been to. The third thing I noticed: everyone in the room seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... -places'. In metathesis reactions, double bonds are broken and made between carbon atoms in ways that cause atom groups to change places. This happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005