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• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  of emails daily from mailing lists, spam, and the occasional person ... list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  experiences you listed earlier fit into the list of qualities. If you decide not ... college admission process. Give them MIT’s list of qualities and start ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  cumin, and eggs. I added a jalapeño and a metric fuck ton of chili powder ... I enjoy productivity that's tangible, so cooking is one of my ... in, honestly. Shakshuka   This has got to be one of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... survival of snowmen everywhere! We will defend! If I could give them out ... has officially dumped on MIT, creating about a foot of snow all over

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high ... exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease ... . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT, won the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially, the 2021 Sveriges

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of ... . But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  the field. The result? A listing of hundreds of mini-internships in ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  this summer job search thing right! But while the list of companies recruiting all majors is small, the list of companies recruiting Course 4 ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which is why this exhibit makes me so happy. The List Visual Arts Center's current exhibit of Tavares Strachan's show, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  possible way. List-making is one of my [annotation note="haha get it... top ... -at-all-definite list of things that I want to explore during my time at MIT, arranged ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first ... feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays ... an “Institute of Technology.”  Having been talking to other class of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... number of questions, my answers must be brief (sorry for the brevity). Will ... prospective students of the obvious merits of MIT?" Campus Preview Weekend (CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of ... admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of ... big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... has several residents who were not 18 entering MIT. One of our 2018s is turning 21 a week before graduation, and she is one of the most competent

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl ... that relates two important parts of circles: their circumference (length

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  listed on the Association of Student Activities website Unfortunately, I ... MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013