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• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  information session (yes, the one for the students), then you’ll ... Strousbridge (?) for about 5 hours, and it did not make me happy. But yea, when I ... about $40 for the weekend, but whatever). Afterwards, I met up with

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview ... besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising future you ... to MIT. You’d just be hanging out for a few more months to get a better

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  Sorry for the massive blog entry - this should have probably been ... . :-) ------------------------------------------------------- Campus Preview Weekend Registration Deadline The deadline to register for ... /14). ------------------------------------------------------- Facebook Group For Admitted Students The facebook group for admitted students

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... working out. So if you've been listening for these past few blog entries

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... , pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from ... high school, I got a 95 on my first 8.01 test after studying for like one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... benevolent than the rough and tough beaver chosen for the 2005 ring. He

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... was here for good. I loved every second of it, but I was also homesick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... go to Harvard Med, and I'm not even premed. But never fear (?), for I ... , and I'll be doing my PhD for at least the next five or six years, so we

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

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... I've done this year really matters for my next steps -- graduate schools don't ask for mid-year reports or expect that you'll keep your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at ... ended up being pretty excited about the concert for two reasons. 1. Fans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I ... rest by finally writing about it. Glass Blowing For those of you who don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then ... . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas ... how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... people threw around went right over my head. I felt too inadequate for ... ) for an interview. By the end of the week, I had a UROP at Choi Lab. It

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google ... of a simplification for how engineering works, because much of its ... beam made of wood. And while this works often for general calculations

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  : However, some of them, usually the problems that were stepping stones for ... “result” of each group reported to a manager. For any given group of 3, the ... CEO. For instance, suppose you have 9 test subjects, whose responses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  works the best for me is, "well, if I can't remember the event, then it ... schedules to tell you what my scheduling looks like for the upcoming semester. =p So these two days of class has been pretty intense. Well, so for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I ... a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of ... for in a small-town or rural area? When we talk about rural and small

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025