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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’s not the end of the world and besides, spring semester is just around the corner during which it will be back to the hard grind of work, work, and ... the floor and pretend i'm a carrot". Make of it what you will.) Though

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... as just a lot of math, and not the friendly kind. Interestingly enough ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  the Office of the First Year with the First-Gen Program! My one fun fact ... crowd. At MIT, the First Gen Program is a tight community, and it always ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  spontaneity and the mere thought of breaking away from my set out plan and goals ... the keys to my first ever apartment and an MIT-issued iPad that stored ... , I think I'd probably break the laws of time travel and probably have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  end of the first marking period, or wait until the end of January as ... - and most of the negative ones accompany applications that are also ... required 2 considered? And does MIT (and other colleges) accept the new

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  three rubber ducks, the guts of a desktop computer, and an orange ... Saturday morning of the spring semester measuring frames, cutting wood, and ... a woodshop, tool room, and tons of free wood in the basement. Some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... was Good at Math and Got A’s in Math and I thought that was the kind of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... 100-km loop around the Kerry Road on the first Sunday of July, when ... charged me at the top of the Gap, when there was still wifi, and when at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  , a tenured and world-renowned professor will stand up in front of the ... -minute talk on the life and times of Optimus Prime. Because just like ... . Sometimes the kids who are taking the class on P/D/F are kind of lazy and don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  parts of the world but different mindsets and interests that create an ... Jerry on the subway to the aquarium trip. I kind of got adopted in and am ... personally did not have a great time during REX, and was on the verge of not

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  of with the first three Harry Potter books. The plot and characters ... ways though, so if some of the things I do sound useless and unhelpful ... have opened and it is now essay writing open season. This section of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... abundance of Diadema antillarum, the spiny sea urchin, inside and outside of ... Studies. I was one of three high school students there, and the knowledge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  , and not just the math parts of math.) I kind of borrowed this style from ... ’t remember which of the two I was first interested in, but they kind of feed ... of which looks really weird. And the slope changes a lot, even within a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding ... a large, two topping pizza. We got bacon and sausage and ate the whole

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of ... the back of my mind, and that really prevented me from really enjoying ... opportunities at MIT and there is knowing that the social and taking care of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  whole CPW evening cleaning the grease-covered pans left over from a day of grilling burgers for hundreds of people and never washing the pans. It was ... of 2022. I remember that the Class had a lot of Emilys, and people who

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  , and even more debauchery than that of its forebearers. Throughout the ... celebrate the Boston marathon and the conclusion of DTYD DTYD 50 DTYD L, which ... she knew of any bands, and she immediately told me about her band. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  turning 21 a week before graduation, and she is one of the most competent ... idea that I was closer to MIT kept me going (that, and the idea of ... of sleep consistently. Otherwise, the body eventually crashes, and then

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017