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• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . But to each his own! Whatever floats your boat! Insert other clichés ... be more or less dangerous than it sounds, depending on your imagination ... 's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  outside. Yes, you might not be able to feel your face or fingers. But you ... think it's important to let the people in your life know that you ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but you can't translate the material yourself. If your teacher translates any documents, please ask him/her to sign and date the translation
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  didn't get to go last year but I really wanted to go this year. But the ... to Boston, I've been able to get a handle on things. Kind of. My mental ... /NR (meaning if you get lower than a C, it doesn't show up on your transcript

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  've gone through Rush enough to get a bid, you probably already know ... heuristic get to you. MIT fraternities are very different from fraternities in ... . Get curious. Collect information. Then make your decision. Good luck! 

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... NEEDED to get to Union Station to catch my bus to Charlottesville. I got ... needed to get from Dulles Airport to Union Station -- which is about a 40

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  studying. If you want to go out with your friends to dinner on a Friday night ... these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary ... ego are not tied to your argument. If you find yourself arguing with someone whom you respect and love, try to surrender your own ego to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  pens, I might as well work for Livescribe and get paid to do it, right ... , somebody else paid, and all I had to do was show up at the airport and get on ... scheduled for July 24th at 10 in the morning. You're all applying to MIT, you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said ... ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... professor to talk about your work. Group Projects - A term long group

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a school profile?

  Your school counselor (or equivalent) should submit the Secondary ... recommendation and a School Profile, describing your school's curriculum and community. Many international schools don't have a school profile. If your
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  check in, watching older students smiling widely when they get to put ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  everybody who I have left on read this summer; I promise I'll get back to you eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to ... year or so, my strong belief has been that the best way to get good at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  to my Valentine who will get her Valentine's day kiss when I'm no ... that on your TI-89. First off, yes, I am a blogging delinquent. Ben ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to ... CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  '07: Ropes Adventure PE class (you get to climb lots of sketchy ... 't have any D's, you can just subtract one point from an MIT GPA to get the ... to get the grades I want, and even though that takes a lot of hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  November, and I didn't get a chance to check out their office when I was ... first few days were reserved for practice and to get acclimated to the ... event ended in order to get back for my 6.177 group presentation, and didn

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016