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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to 5 on her level of eye contact), and then left. I was invited to stay ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class ... was good because I was up bright and early on Saturday. I showed up at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Choir Thursday night, I destroyed both of my knees running three miles on ... stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant ... and journeyed down the five flights of New House stairs because MITSO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... , Allan, and get to know us :). *segway alert* We recently had many of these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to ... applicants who love MIT and show high passion, how does MIT choose? Of course ... . And when we admit a student, we admit that student to all of MIT, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  the heart of everything MIT stands for, and what we try to do here on ... a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of these policies, nor on the proper configuration of copyright law. These

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  in charge of navigation and calling any important features they see ... *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... stressful nights and over 1,700 miles on the Oregon trail, the finish line was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  wrote on their application, and students are free to choose any major they ... knowledgeable on many types of schools, and your moves will be an important part ... any form of online decisions. If you are admitted and live abroad, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... Garten's Butternut Squash soup and entirely mismatched sets of flatware

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  back. And so most schools cut back on some combination of hiring, raises ... quadrupled, and while we still spend a lot (again, a lot) of time on each ... recession, on the one hand, and the ever-accelerating Red Queen spiral of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  , pleasure, and community building," and anyone of any level could apply as ... grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies ... expensive they are. I settled on gouache and acrylic paint bundles

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  classwork and clubs. As of now, the most concrete way I plan on doing this is ... wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to ... on growing companies while living in Israel, Europe, Asia, and the US

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now ... heavily on the upperclassmen in my living group and clubs. i felt ... 't waste their time on! how the hell did i get here? why do i have any

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  to focus on pursuing those opportunities I have in front of me and ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... ’m on a completely different path than I was last January. Most of you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  you come home after a season away and try on the clothes you left behind ... semester, UROPing, and working on my novel. My classes have been the ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  work, and the main reason I found myself on said bus was because there ... after getting on and continued waiting for my bus. But it started me ... five other routes to get to work, and Justas many to get home. Some I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... . These short-answer essays are only one small part of the application, and ... careful of characters like apostrophes, em dashes, and quotation marks. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest ... hours in lab, and C hours doing out of class work. I'll go ahead and put ... frequency domain, instead of the time domain by using Fourier, Laplace, and z

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  any right to be, and the quaintest things have the best way of reminding ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any ... difficulties that I cannot, and don’t need, to handle on my own.  At some point

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024