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• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college ... comments that entry received: "So, what can our students do to get your fair ... for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  Procrastination by Addicted2Success. It's a web app, no need to download anything ... , everywhere I go. You don't need to purchase a Kindle, just get the app ... were on Spotify. A huge part of Spotify is being able to make and share

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... , crossed the street, descended into the foliage by the Charles, and sat on a ... ’t over until my last meeting is, up to 12 hours later. This isn’t a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  of hard work by the records office staff to get it that way. Admissions ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to ... -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright ... discourages filesharing." So the Olympics just finished up. I didn't get a ... and time of this activity is registered to your computing account (or a

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

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

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload ... 'm sure to have a lot to blog about, but until then, I leave you with this ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

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

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a ... possibly get back up again -- and where someone reached out a helping hand

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... through lecture halls’ doors Proclaiming that they have a message of love to ... house us in a place where we can be inspired and taught By one another

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... EDGE/x is: it’s a two-year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven-week summer component meant to ease the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... 'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ’m saying is that there’s a lot more to life than getting all your homework ... Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... reliable. I want to see it through on an international level (better learn a ... courage to wheel this cushy cloth seat out of here and replace it with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  -progress) by making a poster of their work and discussing it with other ... sessions. There was also a keynote speech by Professor Kenneth Catania of ... electric eel and the tentacled snake. I was there to present a poster of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  me from getting too hurt when I leave, or to prepare me for starting a ... months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... get my picture taken to be even more authentic. My mother is not so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES ... get on with the “Who is Cydnie” business… I am commonly referred to as ... breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see ... by a professor of art history at Princeton? Of having been let into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry in an effort to get back into ... took me getting a whole fucking virus to finally take care of myself and that I was relieved to get COVID because it meant I could catch a break

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... radiate? The thing spews out enough math to educate a third-world village

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009