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• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  Toronto with a friend. It’s been an extraordinarily long day. Despite ... and a therapy in itself. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes < ... When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ... common questions here (with help from Dean Marilee)... 1) How many people will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  points where the laser hits the bed. Why does it matter, you ask? At points ... note="lucky me, though, they still healed. so what does that say about my ... with the term, fabrication is Engineering Speak for making things. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  and Hydrothermal Liquefaction. So how does it all work for a Freshman ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... -seen-on-tv product that actually performs like it does on TV. I learn at least two to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  my forehead (it didn't really hurt much, but it was crazy how fast it ... content seems fascinating actually. It's interesting how MIT would structure ... interesting challenge, so I guess I'll keep it and see how it goes. As this is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  "? How do we know if one applicant is "better" than the other? What does ... could we know? And how would we measure it? Clearly Kahneman thinks that ... measured not by what it is but by what it does, which is of course to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  , and here, among others; I would say that how we think about it is most ... critical educational goals. As the brief explains, “Not only does diversity contribute to better outcomes for students in STEM — it contributes to better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  for social chair because it had gone unfulfilled for so long, and ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to ... the ceremony involved such that it necessitated this non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  long way up! It's yours truly ;-) A view from the top Big Ben & ... falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  bitter friends tell you anything else. Carmel asked, "Question: does it ... It's been a while since I've done a Questions Omnibus... Harlan '10 ... recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To ... Facebook engagement, ever! Here's how much of an outlier it is: although the ... mind that these are specific formulations of an entity: i.e., it does not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  happiness when everyone scores poorly together."]technically "does not curve", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... time today to see if this is an actual place that exists and it does! I ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt like I was burnt-out before the semester had even started, and it left me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I ... ranked #37 in the world for its health system (according to the World ... all nations need to be healthy, we shouldn’t be the only ones.) How

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be. That's right. You don't have to be an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we understand that ... before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not violate ... waiver does not negatively impact your application. And if you qualify for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , and I could talk about it for a long time.   5/11/23 Another ... , so it has been a long time in the making. It was so huge and I enjoyed it so much. I really liked this photo cause of how all the people

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  is how it always goes for me. Something about a “young lady” in the ... if they have any direct flights Ruth oh dang. how long was your layover ... everything that I’d done wrong in the airport, and how I could have fixed it

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we ... three years. It is hard to know beforehand exactly how many students will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006