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• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  to my love-hate relationship with physics by now ... get an 18C degree as compared to a physics degree. This semester, I am ... graduate school and get a PhD. There is simply too much that I want to learn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I ... folks (1|2|3) and deferred folks (1|2|3). Still, I'd love to hear from you ... this job - so it's nice to know what you're feeling. Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... around the courtyard and running around on the castle walls. I tried to get ... I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  starvation, thanks to his unwillingness to get out of bed and buy groceries ... space in our room that was screaming to be filled by a sofa. Attempts were ... hosted by Theta Xi, an alley, an effort to find something “big and useless

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  getting excited to take photos with characters. I didn't allow myself to get ... , who gets excited to see Lightning McQueen, whose favorite movie is Cars ... twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... here so we didn't get any days off. Rather, we sat through classes ... invited as well as the students who went over to MIT last year. Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of ... unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on ... , a 2003 book on hacking published by The MIT Press. Little is known

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply ... -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were ... ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  about my UROPs this summer and all the time I get to spend with my friends ... I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  ago. It's awesome. Nevertheless, you do get a little bored living by ... in Maryland for about two weeks now, all by myself, working this NASA ... schedule here, working a nine-to-five job, and learning a lot--I definitely

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup ... their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... accepted that application they were going to get the student they read about ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... , to get to know their personal history and less so their academic ... TwT VIDEOS: TwT videos are a great way to *really* get to know your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  , but people have been telling me that in order to get in you MUST take ... like math, you are expected to be at a certain level when you get here ... 't, and shouldn't, be a list of 'things to do to get into MIT.' Though the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  )\cdot (\text{inches}^2)\cdot (\text{inches}^2)]^\alpha.\] Hence, to get ... $. I.e., can you use integration (as opposed to discrete sums) to get rid ... to understand some blob by knowing the shadows of the blob. Bam-- that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because ... can get to come home next year and just veg and be with the fam. But

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008