Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  activities. I don't know of any other school that does that... and IAP is cold ... now, many of you have probably procrastinated on making one of (what you ... -seeded basketball team. You're probably receiving pressure and advice from tons of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  , so to prevent any delays, you should confirm your username and password ... .mit.edu and click on the "lost username" or "lost password" link. What if I don ... register without your MIT ID, your username and password may not work on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way ... quite useful to carry a flashlight and multitool at MIT - it's a bit of a ... 't take any pictures to post of the happily swimming people. After getting

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  around on a dock with a Vietnamese children's choir and singing "even ... ?" and the song goes on like this for like 23 minutes, because there was a tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... ="650"] The instructor let me take it home![/caption] I SPLIT AN ARROW

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It ... affirmation. And on the other end, I’ve heard so many scary stories about coming ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  President Reif goes on a giant stage and welcomes you, the Class of 2018, as ... right at the bat of the semester.  At any other time, the grade you get on ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  don't have any easy answers. Reading some of the material on ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  the head of the Research Group on Climate Change and Security at the ... academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... , -- iteration and recursion as computational metaphors, -- abstraction of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a lot of things that I've missed or forgotten about, so if you have any

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the ... ! There are already over 400 classes! And they all take place on November 17 ... and stuff), I'm somewhat fond of my high school work. I mean, it's still

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  depends on who's blogging at the time and what they want to get out of it ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... of the important ones engrained in our memory. And those ones in our

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; it must be that cars run on wind,  i don’t know any other way   ... lifetime of disadvantage and I needed to do it as fast as possible ... some of the content before, on day 1, I already feel behind. Even if that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... almost any form, from how-to sessions, forums, lecture series and films, to ... If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  ): You'll say hi to the friendly receptionist and then sit down, in one of ... blankets, and not a lot of stereotypical MIT. 3) Thursday night. TONS of ... to see the hustle and bustle of MIT. Weekends are a special case, you

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  seen people of all ages and sizes riding around on bikes here ... learned when I moved and explored Boston. Maybe you’ve experienced some of ... Office is right off of the Kendall/MIT stop on the redline. Everyone

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  of imagery and symbolism, it makes for a good conversation piece, and ... of the bottom. The screw represents two things: the hands-on, Mens et Manus style of learning at MIT; and a general, well, sentiment that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012