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• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... Boston from Virgina Beach… by way of Atlanta. While displacment is a ... weekend, the rest of my schedule has been covered by a lot of the other

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... reaction. Source It would be a pain to manually draw recurring shapes over ... , a TA is hovering around Google Earth on the side trying to show us

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking ... managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so, which is a real classic MIT experience). Here's what we got up to: I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently undergrads are less fun ... times a week in the Stata Center, taught by Professor Bawendi; my 5.60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  fearing "falling behind" is being constrained by the pressure of following a ... managing to get things done and maintain the high standards you all have for yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  personally did not choose RBA because I wanted to get to know a lot of people ... was a really good experience because I got to learn about a topic I was ... 'm actually going to be an associate advisor for 2.A35, Biomimetic Principles

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... ) other schools do not have the time and resources to make such a class ... opportunity to work through the entire design process and end up with a nice

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we ... thankfully had made a suggestion for where to eat, and we were off. Now ... the highway, so we passed our exit by a measly 50 miles. -_-. A quick

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to ... multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  summer job- as a lifeguard at Runaway Rapids Waterpark. I get paid to get a ... , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... big mess while we were in the process of putting things away. We get a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to ... get used to. While I’ve talked a lot about the difference between MIT ... ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , I get to haul a soggy pile of clothes from the washer to a dryer on ... , [annotation note="Which may have the qualifications to be a pandemic of its own ... lot about what I want to do at MIT. Originally, I wanted to have a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  have been a waste of the energy required to get to the top of the hill ... a half. That's a long time, but I was able to entertain myself by ... : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  have a discussion about that applicant. Things are by consensus -- we ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... early to tell. After we finish with selection, there's still a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  time to get to the hotel. By the time we arrived at HQ, we were an hour ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of ... with so many different motivations are attracted to Career Fair, it gets

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... year is a pretty normal time for biology people at MIT to get involved ... year and a half), but I really wasn't expecting Morgan to react to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 ... Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway ... never saw her again (shame, because I think that to this day I owe her a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  through Yaqui Pass (a deceptively shallow climb to 1500’), followed by a ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of ... cart for a store fixture, attempting to remove items for their own use

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  by live music to my ears is definitely a pleasant reminder of home. But ... . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015