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• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour ... . Ah, bless the liberation of burnout-born apathy! So I left it half done ... writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised ... discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or ... sense of your chances of being admitted to MIT. However, in the last few

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... small group discussions about online privacy and a range of other topics

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... ), I've prepared the following list of guidelines: Your username must ... nicknames of a sort for people, so consider whether you'd be comfortable being

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... end result? A HACK!! It was raised from the ceiling of Stata the night before the one-year memorial of Officer Sean Collier. It was such a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... MIT with all sorts of misconceptions about fraternities. We're all

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... edged into those rare un-mathematical intervals of time. To start: I had

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... across the room. There were looks of surprise, happiness, and even some

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet ... way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the ... .) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  -intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class ... analysis of natural disasters on natural resource firms) and a 10 page ... maximization). As you may have guessed, 14.33 also requires a lot of work. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  the same guidelines. Ultimately, we do not admit anyone until all of the ... in the background [of the stack of applications]." I need my music ... , and afterwards I spied a CD store that was having an amazing going-out-of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly ... introduces the OC ECs. I think all of the Admissions Officers were just a ... life of an admissions officer on the road can be hectic, and sadly we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope ... drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class ... 'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005