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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . Just as surreal as it was to get my acceptance more than four years ago ... , please remember to eat your meals and hydrate, regardless of how crazy your life gets and how overwhelming your workload may seem. A well fed and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of ... school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your ... the fame or fortune to allow them them get a job, situation, or ... . Even if they are outside your field. You just have to be able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  really good time to get in touch with your EC to set up an interview. The ... application. So...consider this my gentle nudge to get in touch with your EC and ... next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  eventually cropped down to the final prize winners. I know you're saying to ... Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... lectures. The informal lectures are when you get a chance to actually hear

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are ... a way to keep sane. It's a way to vent your pain, anger, joy, and ... homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to ... a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to ... you’re here to do: go to class, slog through p-sets, write essays, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... , or between now and whatever you're waiting for. Things to Make While

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  sweating. It's also pretty sad to think about all the effort you're expending ... before Reg Day, which is when you meet with your advisor to choose your ... packing for so little displacement :( Our truck! Then we had to get the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite ... , are going to be just fine. And even if you do trip and dislocate your ... to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... me: 1. Listen. Ask people to lunch or to coffee and just get to know ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards ... are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... . But it's also important to remove weak starting cards from your deck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be ... biology rn (get excited) The grad school post. How applying to grad ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your questions - remember, the only way out is to THINK your way out. Enough said. Let's get down to business. Who is This Guy? Hey Skeech how did we get

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  and time of this activity is registered to your computing account (or a ... your own words the steps you have taken. To avoid loss of network access ... your response. Multiple offenses involving you or computers belonging to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  . Intrigued by the potential to get paid to play with airplanes, I asked Carl ... was on the software required to get the aircraft working together, and ... pretty free to pick your own classes, although you'll have quite a bit of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure ... initiative, it's your resilience, it's your ability to take feedback, it's your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... does? just make sure to choose before it’s too late and you’re left only ... play it safe, so you’re inoffensive and palatable to everyone. you have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019