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• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  ;body corporate by the name of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (as ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... me in particular. The Crescent connecting New York City and New Orleans The Palmetto/Silver Service connecting New York City and Savannah

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  , because for many of these institutions, they couldn't find a strong ... educational institutions offered by a residential education, whether that's at ...  podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  (General Institute Requirements) and while there isn't much leeway in what classes are taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  All MIT undergraduates must complete General Institute Requirements (GIRs). Basically, you must take two semesters of math, two semesters of physics, a semester of biology, a semester of chemistry, and a selection of courses from
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into ... for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with ... 'm ecstatic about, because I didn't particularly enjoy many of the required

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  do things other than science, technology, or engineering. I personally ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... installed) to download a licensed copy of Eudora. Also available at that software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his ... girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024