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• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... reservation i have against all arguments of this form i told all this to a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bryan is alive and in Rome Day One In Rome

  

  hour and I have a lot of emails to respond to. (Thanks for all the emails - keep sending) But for now, I'll just leave you with a few photos. Monday ... We got here safely, and we're having a blast. I'll write a longer

  • by Bryan
  • March 27, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  the material. I've just woken up from a nap, ran to the store, and am now hidden away to study all night. It's a straight push through till ... selection for this particular evening (I tend to listen to the same music

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  , when you don't have psets, you go to concerts right? How about free concerts? Tomorrow, a local radio station here in Boston is sponsoring a free ... did not play my favorite song =[) Awesome, right? EDIT: I'm going to do

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  President Susan Hockfield

  

    To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A ... for Susan Hockfield   To all members of the MIT community:   You are cordially invited to a community reception to welcome Susan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus become awash in color (thanks in part to that unusual snowstorm last week ... '08 give me a house tour. Along the way, I saw a door to add to my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... intended to build upon good work already being done to promote greater access

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of ... ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  [annotation note="I've got a final, but I don't need it to graduate, and I'm sure it ... Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a ... very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  A couple of you asked for the recipe for my plantain crusted salmon ... Pepper Lemon Garlic Powder Oregano Olive Oil Instructions: Preheat oven to ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  calling our local Fox channel. I really wanted a live person to answer the ... , Yonas, Chris, Tom, Christi, and other Bakerites made this huge sign to hang from Baker to celebrate the Red Sox. We wanted news coverage, and

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to ... the lab and shown it to a TA, I have a day's break where I won't go into

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon ... A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i ... to it and i really need to. >< i went to a smash tournament for the first time ever a few weeks ago in seattle, and i went to another

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  response which we then evaluate, akin to the soft rubber hammer which a ... paper applications, we used to just include a blank piece of paper and ask ... questions which are going to a) elicit the most informative, enlightening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... was a huge boost to my speaking skills. Hearing the words spoken often ... in German has helped me to speak German more freely. As a tutor and

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  you submit the application, you are still able to add them by following ... If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application
• Blog / Admissions

  The Epic Split Feat. Tim Beaver (Live Test 6.28) with apologies to jcvd, enya...everyone, really.

  

  A few months ago Volvo released an ad called The Epic Split in which Jean-Claude Van Damme did a split between two trucks as they drove side-by ... , perhaps not epic enough. So, we asked Tim if he could do a more epic split

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2014