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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... . You can find the correspondence here . (Hat tip to the MIT news twitter ... archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  to find a post-doc (two-ish year full-time research positions) which ... fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate ... intended to support a student in a full-time course of study." In other words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of ... . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . It was freeing, in a way, to be able to seek new dreams, create new ... commit to in the cup holder next to me. At last, I was able to open a ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... find a better answer to this question the next time I run into one of my ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  to be held in Poland in late July. Berman said he finds the idea of ... while still in high school. According to his father, David Berman, a ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  useful if you want to refresh a skill you haven't used in a while, or if ... There are some big things coming to a close as my summer begins to ... to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  not available. EA admits are not required to send in a mid-year school report, but are required to send in a final school report ... ? for example if once I happened to notice a geometric progression in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... , prompting them to make enough noise so that we could find them. I've found it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  was able to find a place to stay in Tang Hall, a grad residence right ... spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  went back to campus earlier than expected. Not a single soul was in sight ... /train ride over to Philadelphia for a fully-packed 3-day fraternity leadership ... . Weekends are for recharging. Where are you, PNR? *hosed: in a constant

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... functioning buildings, but also designing and constructing places in such a way

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A ... MIT in your sights shows that you must believe in yourself to some ... 't realize is that if someone decides to invest something in you—in this case

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap ... . Anyway, I've been living in Fran Sancisco this summer with (a sizable crew ... serious companies) while interning at a startup. Interning in SF is a sort

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  /2/23We walked around a lot of Chicago, and got to the pier in the afternoon ... on campus, finding new spots to work each day. This day, I found a cool ... time to make breakfast. There was a cafe in my building at work, and I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This is not required nor ... decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application ... because your application was already strong enough to make you a contender

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old ... also just a really good way to remember the people who have helped me in ... 't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... because it dulled the pain, but choosing to take a leap of faith and open my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... tucked in the woods and right up next to a lake. Off to Canada we went… Day ... spend most of the day in, so we went to a diner, Walmart, and headed back

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024