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• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  , badminton, tae kwon do...). You can be an MIT student and do varsity athletics ... information sessions, people at MIT do much more than just sit in their rooms ... are active, doing things.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check out... Boston Globe article: College applications add to holiday stress NPR Morning Edition story: College Admissions: What Not to Do (with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing ... (Educational Counselors, MIT alumni/ae who do the interviewing), we Waived your ... worries. N or [blank]: You did Not do an interview. Yes, you may have read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  and empowers everyone to learn and do their best at MIT.
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  activities on our What to do in high school page.
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  write about it, what I'm doing and the conversations I've had, but ... so long I can't help but ask myself: Why do I still feel this way? I ... feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not ... think they need to do to be strong applicants, and what they actually need to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  math class starts out with that is because often enough people _do ... it just yet. I mean, they do teach you what all that gibberish means before they ask you to do it. elaine said: i came across your blog while

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , things are, as you might imagine, quite busy around here. I'll do my best ... just wondering, since i had my sister do me a favour by filling out the ... email was filed by the email staff. As for the interview, we do not assume

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  listed, but I do remember Profs. John Fernandez and Steve Graves being ... anything we could do now that might influence the RSI decision?" bob, who is ... notifications will be sent." Well, I did say, "Because I do not work for the CEE

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  lecture, and at some point thinking: "is this what mathematicians do all day?", which was a question quickly followed up by: "wait,,,, what do mathematicians actually... do?" And it's not like I haven't had this question

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... upon your new favorite spot.  Hold onto your 101 Things To Do Before ... think of something fun to do. I know people who've regretted losing theirs

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying at home or on campus relaxing, doing a micro-internship or a ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  note="please do not actually attempt at home"]Because you should ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  mean is that people often tell me that i’m doing great or that they ... do exactly three things: read, write, and talk to people. every other ... know i’ll be able to do them again when i need to? last week one of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in ... -person interview would be difficult. Of course, I prefer doing in-person interviews

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  )...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , mind you—and was left listless. what did people do when they were sick ... for… anything. without anything else to do, i tried to do what i always ... " but they do know the words for "dream", "future", or "devil", and maybe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022