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• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  directions; that’s what will happen when you get to college. Very few of us end ... shuttles - For your chance to become Internet-famous, e-mail your pictures ... even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy ... something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  Losbetos or Filiberto’s. But according to Google Maps, they don’t seem to ... carbonara. I was hungry and didn’t want to walk somewhere alone to get food ... that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing ... head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more ... Courseroad and Firehose have added so much value to current students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... opportunity to see what real research is like. Not only do you get to flip ... the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  the best differentiation between different body parts. In order to get ... my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific ... -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Indie Games The Humble Bundle, an independent video game "pay what you can" website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  of a pendulum is ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY independent of the mass hanging from it to the 8.01 students. I got the original picture from the page ... video lectures, you should! It's awesome being able to actually watch the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west are an independent living group and MacGregor, home of Mollie '06. You

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your ... considered for Early Action. Q: Should I rush report my scores to get them to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  -order coherence). We expect to get [latex]g^{(2)}(0) = 0[/latex] because that ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  reason to rush your application to us by November 1st, especially if you ... we're asking it, to help you get the information you need as quickly as ... your email provider to never send emails with an @mit.edu domain to spam

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you're ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... 'll probably miss you, and you're excited because the airport you're going to has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  of getting in based on your test scores ... social media. Lots of your classmates might be getting into various ... 's coming up real fast. Even if you end up getting into your top choice early

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  more independent— I’ve had a few opportunities to live alone during my ... available on campus without having to worry about getting perfect grades. I ... people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... get for myself and too often I'd find myself going to sleep as the sun ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not ... ? No matter what you write, your audience has to read it!* They get paid ... sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... , discarded my plans to see the city. I wanted to get inside. My sense of safety ... , I get nervous, and I get a little angry. I want to be the kind of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  in your lap. Rule No. 2 Talk Don't be afraid to talk to people, no matter what their rank is in comparison to yours. You have a lot to say ...  you have the length of an elevator ride to pitch an idea. You can't get

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  Contests, and even a Soccer Tournament I'll try to update this entry as I can with photos of events that I attend. Until then, I'm off to enjoy

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005