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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  of the story here is that no one is a shoo-in for MIT, but the opposite ... and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the ... program will result in 400 deaths, the other has a 2/3 chance of 600 deaths

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  helped guide them in every aspect of life. Being a stay-at-home mom is an ... well-rounded by participating in a variety of activities, from sport ... . Consequently, students enter college with a ton of experience in different fields

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  branching structure is more linear. It's governed by the passage of time. In A ... like it's stuck in a loop. The third, and most impactful, is the number ... , the board game, talks about time passing. "Time passes" is a motif in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate everyday subjects in an entirely new light. The question then is, “Why didn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... the Facebook Group & Page: Facebook is a great place to meet your ... application is complete, you award letter will appear here. There is also a link

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  classroom in Building 2 instead, which is just nearby. We spend a concerningly ... such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting ... mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... [annotation note="hackmit is a club i'm in. we do 'family lines' which is ... . opera singers have a very clear voice which is impressive and enjoyable in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of ... is a Research Associate.  He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public ... the author of Public Finance and Public Policy, a leading undergraduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  . MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint ... I plan on presenting in the form of a Tech Article, a Powerpoint ... went really well. I created a "Coping With Anxiety" document that a huge

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  . My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a ... questions in a separate entry. Read it all here. Number 2: If you haven ... ; A kiosk in Lobby 7 that usually runs informational videos about MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... and must be completed in 50 minutes, or an hour and a half, or however

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  memory results in a confused recollection of the entire group. this is why ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending together and passing faster and faster, like sand in an hourglass falling, a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... Period, I stumbled upon an idea for a Cool Project™. Blue Period is a manga ... be an exercise in ✨consistency✨, a mythical attribute I’d been striving

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  only author with two works on this year's list. Jimmy is a demon ... there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second ... before, but this is a writing classic. It's 99 retellings of the same story

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  wanted to through that in there to prove that MIT students do in fact date ... -Spain) but she was in a meeting. On my way to my advisor's office I waved to a ... knew would be due in a few days. I got my forms signed, chatted with the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  can do in a long period of time. Here, he reminds us that a career is ... distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no ... have a blog where you can write about whatever you want?” (TNC himself is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  new ELL (Engineering Leadership Lab) team in a Diverse Connections ... different teams will cooperate in order to achieve that goal. Why is this so difficult? We’ve all been in the position of trying to do a group

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  . Traffic in India is bumper-to-bumper in a very real sense. Take a big road ... Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... horns every second, toss in a few bulls for good measure, and you have

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  proving a point that I'm good enough for CS, when in reality, I don't have ... that majoring in the humanities is a dead end (when it very much is not ... mindset. But as I've been home in quarantine, I've had a lot of time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  scientific documents explaining my work.  This class always culminates in a ... a semester to pursue any research question we can imagine. This is a particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024