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Blog / Miscellaneous
5 days to May 2
you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist until we hear back from everyone. With postmarks on May 2, I don't expect -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... 's mad as hell because he didn't need to waste 2 months on ISEF research -
Blog / Admissions
New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…
Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or -
FAQ / Transfer
How do I apply as a veteran?
for your service. More information about applying to MIT is available on our veterans page. MIT has a growing community of veterans on campus -
FAQ / Academics and research
Do most students complete a UROP?
who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of ... reactor (the only one of its kind located on the campus of a major research -
Blog / MIT Life
Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!
Tuesday all day Car 2, led by Becca G. '14, would go climbing on Monday ... actually saw Cathie Y. '16 there on a different MITOC adventure! Once all 18 ... you can sit and watch the stars. Five of us went to follow him on a -
Blog / MIT Life
a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta
was thinking that I’d take you all on a tour of a few of them! Alpha Phi ... "]entrepreneur.[/annotation] Let’s go on in! [carousel image1="111433" image2="111434" image ... we’ve finished up touring houses on the Boston side, it’s time to cross -
Blog / Life after MIT
That rings a bell Made of brass?
every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... elsewhere, I have stayed as a civil engineer throughout my career, working on -
Blog / Advice
False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale
Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot -
Blog / How to Human
how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice
them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... . This did not work that well, because the sore is on the inside of my ... my lips and ice easily melts inside my mouth. 1/10 Salt. I saw on -
Blog / Challenges
[Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23
dying Peel a strawberry Bake a grape Surgery on a grape Cleanse your email ... Attack on Alison - alison"]Attack on Titan[/annotation] Do some data analysis on your screen time reports and then if it’s as tragically high as -
Blog / Classes
What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific
lots of cool things happening here on campus too! Like: Classes Many of my friends on campus are taking classes! While there are classes, they ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects -
Blog / Challenges
i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester
went on until i snapped, slammed my laptop shut, and went to bed ... to put nothing on my gcal. i spent most of it with casey, but also with ... jynnie told me -- i'm the third senior on our hall to drop OS this semester -
Blog / MIT Life
summer scraps life updates
I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with ... , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Reuse Poetry Giving things away
"I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a -
Blog / Life after MIT
Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.
I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I ... Katharina Ribbeck on biomaterials, whose research is on mucus. (I studied ... science videos on farts and poops, but sneezes and snot are the truly awe -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
. For more information on how our Early vs. Regular and deferral process works, you can read a previous post I've written on the subject ... do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we -
Blog / Extracurriculars
How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.
stuck this piece of aluminum on the mill. A mill is essentially this fancy ... different diameters, we pocketed (made a square shaped hole) on the top of the ... below! Again, I failed and forgot to take photos... but essentially on -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.
" and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12 grad who later wrote the textbook on applied geostatistics, now runs his
