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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on ... of 9 to 1. How do you get time? You write. You argue persuasively for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  going to get that chance. So apply to some colleges, get in somewhere, go ... 're getting in - admissions rates are at ridiculous lows - but throw your app in ... compared to a farm kid in North Dakota? They have nothing in common.  I think

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... gets larger in the window, nighttime Boston like a wet spiderweb beneath ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  womb can get an opportunity to do research. Here, passion replaces pomp ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are ... of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great ... with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... to in chorus always smelled like old yogurt. MIT does have excellent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... know.  But still the best way by far to take notes in most MIT classes

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  silly little mental health walks, sometimes to dog-watch in local parks, sometimes to get [annotation note="Framingham has the largest Brazilian ... ) it's time for anyone who's interested in blogging to share your writing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  March 27th, i got to experience spreak in all its glory! it was absolutely ... —it was great seeing all the '22s who used to live in Burton Conner, along ... immediately ubered to the airport with two people in my group who also live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college, and we in college admissions officers reinforce that, they don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to ... /classmates can answer them - a.k.a. a way to get instantaneous answers to questions ... ": "In response to popular demand, we have decided to move the deadline for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in ... in MIT has the opportunity to come to campus, hang out with students ... -ever MIT Webcasts, to awaken interest in students who could not visit MIT and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  !!! I like to call this one “Cyd in 3-D” So without further ado, I will get on with the “Who is Cydnie” business… I am commonly referred to as ... what I’m called as long as it’s in some way related to me. This is

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... committee-based process, those students don't get in). Additionally, there is so much more to my job than selection. We get to present information

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... the years and years to come? In an earlier entry, I talked about the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain ... my mic while trying to keep my MIT crew hat from blowing off in the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie ... this reason. I listen to Stevie Wonder’s “Visions” and “All in Love is ... :00 → Second UROP meeting! Same place, different project. For this one, I get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015