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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  genres of music, clothing, and stories that are unique to the African ... confronted with a world of people I had never related to. A majority of the ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right ... happens for a reason, and while you can debate the validity of that ... further ado, here is the Simmons 3AB musical interpretation of pi to 15

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled it off...and off came all of the sticky duct tape residue with it! Eureka! I of course proceeded to clean up the laptop surface with the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first ... can help you understand the culture of a campus community as you

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  whether the owners will take them down, or edit the content. Some of them ... those environments, so I (again) apologize if any of you find the content ... can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT ... because it was the day of pi, but also because it was the day when regular

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  featuring stories that capture and communicate the richness and diversity of the MIT experience. Subject matter will range from the arts, research ... , sports, and the occasional hack." I hosted Episode 4, check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we ... After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your application has entered a black hole. So what really happens between when you
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an ... saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  THE APPLICATION IS LIVE! because why bury the lede

  

  my god... it's full of words       > > > click this button to apply to MIT < < <     

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates are there yet the bottom bunks have all already been claimed. so of

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a ... really. So the moral of the story is: COME VISIT. Discover the various ... A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More ... of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not finish this early, but GAH! (the second time this semester, fourth time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  (UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics ... juicy bit of information: He's on the Board of Directors for Nokia ... the organization of firms, inspired by his work straight out of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  of time doing this. Too much time. As a matter of fact, the reason I ... middle of the hell that is the wait for decisions, I really suggest to not ... interview, there is really no more you can do but wait. The decision is out of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  generally not the variety of nerd that seems to stick in society's collective ... ." So I dumped the remainder of my IAP paycheck into a violin and an alto ... hasn't invented time machines yet. (^ click to see the rest of our

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... of the System Integrators,[/annotation] which was a lot of work, but so ... Tonight, mechanical engineering seniors will showcase the culmination

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the perspective of number of words written, i've written the equivalent of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021