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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  needs legs to stand up right? No s***, I thought. But how can I even ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... progress. When you’re not doing well, the professor and jurors tell it to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... send it again?!" (Please no.)   The answer to all these

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  catch my breath. Now that I finally have, I'm not quite certain what to do ... class which is never not cool to me. This year, lectures are officially ... [annotation note="Did you know: Not everything written needs to be put online

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in ... flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many ... ."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... student here, learning how to think is still the most important thing anyone ... extra time.) Still, it's not like the test is going to say "Refer to pg

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  brave. (Eli hoped to go from “Not knowing how a computer works at all to ... happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  decide to look them up; they will not leave your head for a long time. Duh ... its point. I decided not to use my binoculars. That said, the opera got ... classes, which saved my butt - I hear that it's not classy to pset through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -- it's so exciting to finally find a big group of people who get you. Not ... Two exams down, one to go. Well, strictly speaking, 462 units down, 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at ... edition of HowToGAMIT, and more), and a lot of my closest friends are still ... Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision through the ... the process, we grew very attached to you, and not just for what you ... a wise man once said, for us, it's more than a job. It's hard not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  learned that applicants wanted to read stories from primary voices, not ... applicants wanted to interact not only with current MIT students and MIT ... brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you ... supposed to be postmarked by May 1. Both students who are and are not ... wrote: Whether or not MIT prepares you to be a lawyer probably depends on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  about how media and politics shape each other, but also to have a group of ... rather than struggles to be undertaken. If that was true then (and I'm not ... students not only register to vote at higher and higher rates, but protest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  Beard Period: January 28 - March 11, 2005 Ben vows not to shave until ... all of the traffic. For months I brainstormed on how to take that ... to have a present, not just a future. Don't let them define themselves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  just how little MIT has changed, both with regard to its charming aspects ... effects: not only how it decimates women in academia, but how it negatively ... 't quite sure what to expect. The show, Truth Values, billed itself as "one

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  :48 PM To: conner 2 I am NOT reserving the floor lounge at 8 PM on Tuesday ... its way out, seeing as how it was (thankfully) not renewed for Season 4 ... posted the video, and she did NOTHING to him. It's like, I did not sit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  surprise yourself by how much you're able to take on. That said, if you ... not the norm for high-quality research institutions!) which to me is the ... 'm sorry… I'm actually not 100% sure why I went to MIT - it was kind of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing ... understandable to prospective students, whether or not it does so in the most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  . Basically, anything that is designed to quantify a process will not only be ... know every tricky turn up their sleeve. That’s not how real world driving ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  's phone blaring some YouTube lady telling me how to cook some complex meal ... 's engineering/PM minds to try and figure out how to fit as many features of a ... this one. Perhaps not...the best? solution? But it's a great way to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021