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• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep gratuitous amounts and eat animals I wasn't aware still existed while lounging ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see ... ramen and the occasional pasta. (I'm actually really ashamed.)  For the ... learning and practicing cooking. So I bought many, many meals from the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  tedious and time-consuming" class. The past three weeks have validated that ... solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to ...  (Piazza is basically a site where students can ask questions and instructors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  me unable to do much more than mumble incoherently, sleep, and chug ... and feeling woozy, and fell asleep for about 14 hours. Upon waking, I began to sacrificially prepare myself for a massive MATLAB lab and a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a ... another these past few weeks (and for that matter, during my entire life ... , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  ), 15% Hispanic, 10% African-American, 1% Native American, and 9% International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources ... rate that is much, much higher than many select private schools, and even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, wearable computing in the Media Lab, and miscellaneous cool stuff in the Precision ... hours after he learned about energy-storing inverse lakes, he and his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each ... tools correctly, and ties up their hair in proper fashion. We're not ... also foam and plastics) which we can use for our class projects

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  kidnapped Baxter because he smells funny and no one on the floor likes him. If ... first: Prepare a double layer strawberry and dark chocolate cake, and ... HIM GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and have some cake) (and other people too if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on ... challenges, and President Susan Hockfield established the MIT energy initiative ... Vehicle Team, and the Solar Decathlon (read more in the Spring 2007 issue of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only ... fan - you just kind of get sucked into it. And it's even worse when you ... or a floor lounge to find 10+ people anxiously watching everything, and

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I ... called Dropbox, and I must say I'm impressed by their technology and ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... went about contacting students and setting up a production schedule. I sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  : And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... you have a viral infection. You should take some Robitussin CF and oh

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... . The first number after the dash gives the floor in the building, and the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it ... , where we walked through an open-air produce market and into a large ... during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT ... Supply Chain Prophecies *Fusion Experiment Joins MIT and Columbia -Some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational Counselors (ECs) before the Central Meeting. The Tampa ECs and I dining at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005