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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... next wave of applicants. "Just because you haven't heard of a college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  'm doing a bad job at this regular updating thing. I promise that within the ... such as amino acids, proteins, and related compounds. Takes chemistry, a subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... . This figure doesn't include recitations -- a recitation is a discussion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  calling with questions. In an effort to answer these questions, here is a ... the ACT? A. We honestly have no preference. If you submit both, we ... SAT writing section be considered? A. The SAT writing section is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  who receive a "big envelope" in the mail, it's not because we ... . Tomorrow, I'll answer a final round of questions before Friday's expected mailing. And of course a full update on Friday about the progress of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  I come today as the bearer of some un-chic news. It is not only a frankly boring, overdone announcement, but a regression to my previous self, a negative evolution. Nonetheless, it is true to my soul, and I found

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  ... which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers ... secrets those mysterious 90%-windowless cubes would hold. (Perhaps a prison for music students who played one too many wrong notes during a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning ... other schools have this, but basically a week between finals and ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  'm taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I've never cared about a class ... to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went ... watched a man with headphones sleep while I thought about what I was going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... , and especially on Facebook, across a variety of groups maintained not by ... no groups, no photos, no news feed, just a profile photo and a comment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  also describes Liechtenstein thusly: "Mountainous, it is a winter sports resort, though it is perhaps best-known as a tax haven." Poor Liechtenstein ... among TBP members. Now, I have not always wanted to go to a Boston Celtics

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  attitude with work in the past, see e.g. there is no such thing as a typical day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is ... doing promys again, this time as a head counselor, i'm helping run

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the ... materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  are, because first semester freshman year is a ball. My awesome pre ... the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA's balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  Development Enterprises Nyimba district offices Here are some pictures from

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  corned beef sandwiches from Zingerman's, Chipatis from Pizza House, and peanut butter and chocolate chip milkshakes from Pizza Bob's. I made sure ... visited? As for me and MIT, I always get the Milk Bubble Tea from the

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  From Star Simpson '10: Nando Paniagua '10 manually created this database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so that people can find other orientation housemates/roommates. Check it out

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006