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• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to open and close his door. Whether you believe him or not, I have to admit ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  least for now -- "How to Succeed at the MIT Mystery Hunt by Being Really ... 9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... into tech when I know it's not what I want to do at the end of the day ... blathered on and on about the optimal way to make money in game and how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  : Afterwards we cooked and ate the mushrooms that were unambiguously not going to ... lecture halls to Athena clusters, 15” Dell Inspirons clutched tightly under-arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... student or not!) feel free to send me an email at [email protected]! [caption id ... either. It’s not an exaggeration to say I joined for the vibes and stayed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  they love and find it’s not so bad after all. I’ve talked to both ... won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education ... ’s not about finding the right answer to a problem. My only job is to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... nitty gritty of discipline, lesson planning, and how to get students ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  anyone who doesn't know how to swim jump into a pool ten feet deep???" That ... Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their kids, and you'd be surprised how often the argument, "It could save his

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  conversations, I’d forgotten to let myself feel anything. I was shocked by how ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... home. I’d come out to my parents. I’d failed my first MIT exam. Looking

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  mentioned that I know "exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT ... school that we know have gone to MIT. Harry: I did not! In fact, it is ... would have to be ice skating. It’s definitely not unique to South Dakota

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... partner, was not even suffering."]suffering.[/annotation] I want to push

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and informed the balance that we will not be able to admit them to the ... among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions ... for admitted, waitlisted, and not admitted students. Answers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• 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,…

  

  and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  how his biology psets and tests test more his ability to think and solve ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people ... decisions, to how organizations make decisions, and all the way to how it ... with the times it’s open, how it chooses its prices, why you seem to face

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  up talking to for a bit about how he became interested in jewelry making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get ... on how important it is to rest. It's a nice change of environment and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  not been so moved to the core as I was last night. Perhaps it was the ... Admarket's flickrSLiDR) So how did we manage to get so lucky? The answer ... and lucky, not only to attend MIT but to have ridiculously awesome and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  hitching up my covered wagon and hitting the Oregon Trail. (Is that not how ... Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... looked forward to about finishing high school. But with classic Asian

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012