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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  's appeared in the last 8+ years' exams and you'll leave with 5 pages of ... One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... coolest of cool tech companies, Google. "In the interview, they asked me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high ... finished the psets early in an attempt to carve out three days of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... . These came in many forms. First, they were coding errors. It was the first

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  , it's the first day of my spring break, I have an IV sticking out of my arm, I ... four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... particular Saturday, my early awakening was the result of a yoga makeup class ... frog pose the likes of which I had never even imagined before. Whoa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  in my arm, pulled the needle out of my arm, and gave me a Band-Aid. The ... the image of Sputnik and talking with friends about math and economics ... ; Common symptoms of the flu include fever, cough, stuffy nose, fatigue, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT ... ! First, we headed over to the U.S.S. Constitution. The U ... -masted frigate that played an important role in the war of 1812. It was built in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  thought I might want to play the piano. But I saw a lot of my parents ... to MIT and on a spur of the moment deal, tried out for an acapella ... surprisingly really good, he spends a lot of his time practicing with the other

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  I'm two years into my master's program. The first few weeks, I was ... . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There ... , the thought of doing this for years and years after I graduate, you know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... what feels like eternity without actually getting all of the pus out, so ... help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  ’s Sour album and realizing how wonderfully she captured the pains of first love, first heartbreak, teenage insecurity. Her songs climbed the Billboard Hot ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  . Commentary: We watched this video the first day of lecture. Possibly one of the ... would think it's easy, but it's really not. So this semester is the FIRST ... the physics and stochastic nature of manufacturing processes and systems

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  . The passion that rides my mind when I think of it cannot be explained in ... practically done everything my school has to offer and am also the president of ... address an email to Stu Schmill, Director of the Educational Council, at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters (such as the authors of Hogwarts textbooks) and have an intense ... this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed ... dream where I found out that Season 3 of The Bear was going to take place

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  think tank, like the Brookings Institute. There are more varieties of ... Fund, or Fed (generally at one of the Federal Reserve's regional banks). You can also do this sort of work at places like the government's Office

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the seven daughters (the constellation is also called "The Seven Sisters") of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013