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• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  and that this wasn’t just a fever dream, and things started to calm down ... the bills and counted them one by one. While it hurt just a tinge to see ... the next four years. Needless to say, she became a really rich man that

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a ... ' forum, I'll try to respond both as an MIT adcom and also as a parent. This ... which I say: guys, I work for MIT! If a kid doesn't want to be taking a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  sucks," every time there's a projection error, just to show how much we ... [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series ... presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  , you'll be able to help us out, learn a recipe or two, and enjoy a ... maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is ... , you'll get to interact with a sampling of the most active groups on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  taunting and the teasing came to a head. Sara misspoke one day, and Yuki ... realized that in order to burn cereal Sara must have been a spectacularly bad ... As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly answer a few common questions... ------------------------------------- So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... athletes were held to a lesser standard than everyone else. This was ... been a great way to network and meet fellow MIT alums from the past

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz ... us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative ... and drinks that you could smell from a mile away. Beast tried to make ... . He will be remembered always, and we wanted to dedicate a part of our

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at ... !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to ... found himself stricken with a case of influenza, exhibiting such symptoms

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a ... Plants” and “Eyewire: A Game to Map the Brain”) Images from the Spokes ... ? The idea had a long history. I had always noted, largely thanks to my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  parabaloid, a shape well known to mathematicians - or something very close to ... to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a ... A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into ... November night. One was to be the first security engineer at a small company ... onto the Stanford campus to give a guest lecture in web security, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I ... . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  it here, but since today is my last day here, I wanted to write a ... , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to ... this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022