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• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  credible answers to a few questions that the painfully shallow news coverage ... that doesn't have to worry about cultivating diverse perspectives in a ... students who are being shut out, whether it's a smart American kid who has to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to ... assignments to give myself a little time to reset. By the end I no longer cared

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school ... chose to hang my hat on MTG. Was it scary to audition as a freshman? Of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call ... file. There is no need to give us a heads ... official marksheet....as this is kind of considered to be a big achievement

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , they have a system set up to raise an alert after even just a few minutes ... . In the future, the Radio Society is hoping to develop a couple really ... program: can a computer be taught to predict the future location of an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  a page of handwritten notes for. We’re expected to understand and manipulate a lot of equations, so I tried to color code the variables to ... pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little ... are still more than a Chipotle burrito ($7.50 after tax at Kendall). To ... a lot weight to this argument: MIT students are perpetually busy and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  class, taking a break to walk along the Charles with a new-ish friend ... half, actually, or 66 units, which number turns out to feel like a ... the time. I moved to pika, and with Michael Waldrep, a masters student

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... door wielding a huge-ass Nerf gun like he thought he was about to storm ... I even had a livejournal, I went to check out the MIT community

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to ... 're doing it to make a deadline, or because you're forced to. but if i tell my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  and thought to myself how I, a Texan, was going to survive another ... the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid ... ” managed to be. My first week of work rolled around. A typical day found me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open ... them to receive an amazing education in such a conducive environment has ... world-view shifted, to force me to see things from a different perspective

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing ... woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in ... the scenes. I don't know about you...but at least to me, that says a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... .036 introduction to machine learning. after being a lab assistant, or la, for four ... recitation, plus a wednesday lab. my section was from 11:00 to 12:30, and that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... ) College Network and managed to both plan and execute a five-state/25 ... the highway turned out to be quite a highlight; one of the best parts of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... anthropology class teacher asked us to say our name and a small story related to our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then become a doctor. I was going to rock out at my classes and a bazillion

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... !") and I proceeded to walk up two and a half flights of stairs, thinking (I ... card or something. He saw me hobbling, and offered to give me a hand

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  address ensures the delivery of a letter to the right mailbox. White blood ... the library. Oxford makes you adhere to a dress code for exams ... called “bops” and often have a theme, like “Back to School”, “When I Grow

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009