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• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  seems like MIT students are overwhelmed because the workload is impossible ... availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... eating whatever is quickly made?" 2) "If you (or anyone you know) has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  , I went on Hydrant, which is a planning site for MIT classes so you can ... it again. I'm done choosing MIT undergrad classes. This is it—there is ... . Undergrad is cool. These classes are cool! Learning is so cool!! I'm glad MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  stations in the Cambridge-Boston area, is subsidized by MIT, a perk available ... (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging ... able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Madonna is 48 years old. Seriously. Guys, I need a ... , and usually the entropy of activation required for that process is just ... . Tomorrow all six hundred people at my site have to go to some workshop, so my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I ... significant other, Javier W., who’s currently a researcher at an MIT lab. I ... ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  Sidney Street, the location of the ubiquitous Star Market and the Hotel@MIT ... had my first omelette since coming to MIT, so that was very nice. We ... at MIT can you walk past Building 32 (yeah, fine, the Stata Center) on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  ." At MIT, Course 9 is Brain & Cognitive Science, which the department ... ; check out the images at this site. The coolest thing about the project is ... classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... . There was only one problem. Saying I want to be a “cancer researcher” is

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  Pod and made it an iPod Shuffle. I really think there is a technological ... restaurant on the water's edge and taking countless photographs of the food is ... hours too early. When this happens, the only acceptable thing to do is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... , regardless of what internet speculation sites have said. Really! Ruth's just ... grad student Andy is in Switzerland and I'm basically doing all his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  . A raincoat is also a fantastic investment, but for the uncomMITted, a ... Station -> Red Line to Kendall/MIT), then here is how you get from the ... . JOON: CPW is rarely what your actual MIT experience will be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  historical sites are. As is to be expected, they are clustered around Harvard ... This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned ... later. This fort--now a park filled with fluffy dogs--is the last

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... !"]3 years[/annotation] as an MIT undergrad. [caption id ... heavily caffeinated tea Any "hometown pride" I feel is because of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... both powered to world records (Daedalus and Decavitator) by MIT aero ... who failed it in the fall. Some courses at MIT have "on" terms and "off

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  Travel About an hour after I launched the new site (talk about cutting it ... radio station. Not that radio in Boston is particularly awful, but I could ... so long to finalize decisions. This is the first year in which the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an ... questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  Recommendation forms are available on your MyMIT portal. It is okay if your teacher ... . This is true even though MIT does not use the Common App; submission of ... . Application Component Tracking The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  . Now, my shift is over. Nearly half of the students have arrived. I have ... , so I'm looking forward to it =) 3:46pm: Almost all set for the MIT Abroad Panel! The Powerpoint is running off of this laptop, so no more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson ... topics when Ben opens up the super new site. Sidenote: You, too, should go ... -discussed topics. Hence, today: Undergraduate Advising at MIT. Freshman advising

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is, leaving you hints and leaving you guessing. This is the entry where all is

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008