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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . See, I'm starting to get interview invites from some of the graduate ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight ... . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  Regular Action applicants are about to. So what do we do next? Once your applications are complete and all material received, your application goes to a ... your entire application, will then be presented to the selection commitee

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose your dang mind over their amazing blogs. [image_row images="67584

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  far away from your host dorm room, or you go back to your room to get ... 't hope to answer everyone's questions and echo all of your feelings, but I ... 'd rather have meet a few people and then take time to reflect on your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  before we realized we simply just needed to get outside of our room. We ventured outside behind Baker House, only to get knocked over by the blizzard ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  nose is running, or your leg's going to fall off, don't expect any ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this condition, because I really felt at that point that the only way to get worse

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... hours early to get ready, try out the acoustics in our new digs, and get ... -raising ability (read: badassness) to get more people to come to the show. One of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my ... . (hosed = MIT slang for being so busy that your to-do list takes up an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Princeton. This is an amazing talk. You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  you're planning to come to MIT you should read up on the cheer before you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  would like to ask you to showcase your past business plan to the students, pretending that they were the people whom you wanted to get funding from in the ... entrepreneurs and a VC representative and the audience. The idea is to get all the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  ’t ever achieve your dreams. But I’d like to tell you this: eventually, you will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... disappointed if you couldn’t get into your “match” school, right? During my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... do it” (Amelia Earhart). So if you get scared, “don't be afraid of your ... , it’s hard to wrap your head around all the sheer size of a lofty goal

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your chance ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the ... exactly where you want to live, exploring may help you meet your new best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class ... works best for you, so yes, you'll actually have to study for your midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  the news with as much interest as your kids are. But getting the "answer ... easy since there are many decisions still to be made. Before things get ... grandfather or me. When the dust settles, you'll need to help your child make

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  responses of your friends vary, and it's fun to discuss different answers when ... introspection. One example, "to what do you attribute to your success," generated ... ? Check. Getting closer to them as you learn things you never knew about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  )  Regular Action December 10: Last day to contact your interviewer and ... school to receive your scores when you take the test or we will not receive ...     tl;dr: Click here to apply to MIT.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... lighter subject (get it?). You might expect an MIT laboratory to be really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities ... Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007