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• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  People sometimes say that it doesn't matter where you go for undergrad, as long as you go somewhere spectacular for grad school. I have ... don't even remember what it approximately was. I got a few B+'s and a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  seek at Briggs Field. I placed [annotation note="It seemed unlikely ... location over another, so it was hard to predict the actions of other players ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned ... for themselves. There's an online guide to all events, but since it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been a bit more than two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list ... the time and effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  geek (like me), it's hard not to be fascinated by perfect numbers and ... 'll play this as a guessing game: how many freshman applications do you think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  ...OUCH. Fortunately, it only meets 7 times the entire semester. That means 5 three day ... . 2.ThA - Undergraduate Thesis How to write your thesis 101 2.A35

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  Formal This year it was at the State Room which is on the 33rd floor of an ... , Chris '06 and Wes '07, allow me to test how obnoxious my flash would be

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not ... , pictured below: You may think it's repetitive for me to post two pictures

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here ... and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this ... with graham cracker dust (dirt) and broccoli (trees). It looked pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  , watch some Netflix and fall asleep. It’s mundane and boring and exactly what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... it intriguing at best and perfectly frustrating at worst. I don’t have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  10 (not a clue what they were rating, exactly...how awesome we looked ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... , who also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story. It's been a year since I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  less broken by MIT. It's like the difference between a tasty avocado* and an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the ... one of those days, only with a break for blogging. So here's how

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  --a komodo dragon could have an immaculate conception, assuming that it had a ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... with a problem, and solve it yourself. We'll be here if you need us!" It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  all, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. One more year to go! ... Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might ... minor I regret this, because 1) I ended up aborting this plan, and 2) it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  , working towards the same goal. It was heart-warming and impressive. How ... (this time with cheery umbrellas over their gruesome signs). It was impossible to process that this was it, maybe the last time I’m seeing these

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... probably even more interested in why.  It is entirely possible that your

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023