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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in ... me that the world is a beautiful place. It's easy to forget that when you're stuck in your bubble at home or at MIT. I hope everyone is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  . Theoretically, I had a weekend to work on all of it. But, that Thursday and Friday ... MIT organizer, and I hacking hard or hardly hacking?  On top of that, somehow ... -and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite ... use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of ... to Sam, asking if he wanted to contribute a guest post on his

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... these blogs all year, this is one event you won't want to miss! All of the ... registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  haven't had a whole lot of experience on shift. The latter, though, might ... is on it. So basically, that's everyone minus newborn infants. Yay. As ... ," I e-mailed a few of the crew chiefs on duty this last week, asking if

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  ). My research is on the microbiome of the female genital tract, and my ... biology and is now about to finish his MD, with an eye on radiation oncology ... research endeavors of my fellow undergrads. Today, little seems to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  program or the college you want to enter. MIT is no piece of cake, so just ... it. Hindsight is 20/20. I think more than 1000 students get a 1600 on ... to spend countless hours in lab is also an extremely important factor

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll ... ;yield"). This year, our yield is going to be around 72-73 percent. Last year, it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... , solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  impact of his musical leadership is felt on four continents." His guest ... whether you like it or not) he had to entertain. As the conductor of a ... , perching on the edge of that stool. He occasionally shifted to look over his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was! 1. This is a ... Center and all the public art on campus. I’m looking forward to the next

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your ... of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  ’ve always wanted to learn, hang out with friends, or do research in the lab - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an ... guitar, basket of food, and blanket), and I was pretty envious. I chose to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  : Intensive study of a range of texts by a single author or by a limited group ... using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  , so I've been there too. Those of you among the 28 are about to have to ... those of you who are not, I hope the decision is also welcome, and that you will bring your full focus to bear on completely crushing whatever

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  score is 0 (meaning that more than half of the test takers earned no points), and usually is 1 or 2 (yes, out of 120). Here's problem #1 from ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Not Admitted A forum.

  

  , which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a great number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an ... intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  ’ve resigned ourselves to a dirty floor. The main problem is that I love lying on ... managed to move my bookcase on top of my drawers under my bed (this ... majorly Part Of The Problem. Going to college 5,000 miles away from home

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the ... 't listen to all of them them or censor anything, so y'know, use your judgment ... We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019