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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... -consecutive hours, 86 measures, five parts, thirty sheets of staff paper, and six

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... than they had been before they went off to college. My grandfather has ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... presidential debate bingos and register to vote parties. Well, I've been getting ... anticipated. Tonight, pretty much the same story, but with no deadlines to shaft

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  . They are also teachers of a type when they talk to each of you during ... that I want each of them to give when they do an interview. I just don ... something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... /Baker tradition: the piano drop. According to The Tech, "The piano drop was first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet ... 't live without music. 11. I want to be famous. 12. I spend money i don ... person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures ... walk across the floor to ask her to borrow it. Pretty much, the majority of what you're going to get is going to be camera-phone pictures. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  useful.  If you’re planning to forgo a mealplan, I’d recommend that you actually learn how to cook a few filling, [annotation note="eat your veggies ... usually more than happy to give you advice or help you out

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT innovation might just be for you: That's right, for the low price of free

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... reduced prices. Food was bought unused, but usually at reduced prices. Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting and exploring MIT, or who are concerned about changes to their academics ... looking forward to beginning her university studies this fall, so I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW, all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  computer in addition to their Air. Wait for SSD prices to drop, then look at ... things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  among "Outstanding Faculty" in the Business Week Guide to the Best ... -foundations of institutional change. In order to change practices that comprise their work and family lives, organization members need to modify the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also, according to my Writing Advisor, “thus” is a very math major word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen ... ) *Application of the Suspended Microchannel Resonator as a Biosensing Device to ... ) *Unexplained Pawn Pricing Behavior: A Study of Las Vegas Pawnshops (by Jen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005