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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  plan. Check out my old entry on it here. As Melis said, almost everybody ... a million dollars. But instead I'm posting it here because I wanted to ... their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  determines who has what authority? How is what Batman does different from ... can think of is 6.08. Now read that again. How is it that I have taken ... it teaches legitimate computer science work and fields, and does so in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  : Which class have you taken (difficulty level), GPA (does it match up with ... , and typically when I sit through one I'll live blog about it. So here we go! Right now I'm just waiting for it to start, people are all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... , but 8 is too late. 7:45 usually does the trick setting one alarm never ... same thing for lunch and dinner every day does, in fact, get boring

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... they're shared between many other Philippine languages, so I think it ... acronym for Original Pilipino Music. It's a catchall term for Philippine pop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  popular venues for such events is the Hatch Shell. Not only does the Hatch Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to ... sponsored by a local radio station. It's like a drive-in without the car

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could ... ? Does she even go here? The answer is no, I don't go here, BUT I used to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would never happen, but as I've just very recently learned, it does indeed ... 's pretty cool. That's probably an understatement, actually. It's insanely

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... is good. It deserves fuel. It does not deserve the extremes of poor ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  the summer - I asked someone this once and he mentioned how when it gets ... scores get first picking? Is it okay as long as I am in your range?" It ... made me think how strange it was that people expect those sort of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  your roommate does wonders. Or that it’s fine to go from talking about ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  last-minute answers. It's fashionable here to loudly announce your impending doom -- you know, it's bad luck to say good luck on opening night ... . "How about you take his 16.05 exam and he can take your 2.005 one?" "Okay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  , fewer classes allow equation sheets, so I started writing it on my hand ... seemed to think it was kind of pathetic, actually.) I even took to writing ... week (I believe it was while planning for CPW last year, and around the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  of nothing else; how long since a book has so gripped me? I am hoping ... up my pace! I almost always run alone, and I’d forgotten how lovely it ... . Maybe it’s also good for running faster? After a long long time and many

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  personally really enjoy (and the show does it really well). The dialogue and ... voice and style, I don’t even know how to describe it. I just feel at ... it then, but the lists kept growing. Here are some of the things I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  02139. It is okay if your teacher or counselor does not include the ... . If your EC has not gotten back to you, and it has been a long time (say ... and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just Alison ’23, Emily ’22, and Felix ’23. It was cool. We drew some things ... note="and having a few 2026s ask me what this team does"]past two years

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out ... hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how ... The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  structured than it currently is and overall pretty different. how helpful was ... constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things, like art or writing, if they haven’t already been ingrained as habit. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  the coming months, do not let yourself be preoccupied about how it will ... seen firsthand how this crisis has affected their education and — more ... in that post, and to expand upon it. As Dean of Admissions and Student

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020