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• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  meeting, and later across the Bay Bridge to Lafayette, for another meeting that had us grabbing for and setting up extra seats to accommodate ... I'm allowed to write about what I saw at Google, aside from what they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  . ... These new steps to enhance MIT’s affordability for students and families ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... much higher level opponents and had to respec to dex/faith and learn new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  condition, professors are required by law to make reasonable accomodations for ... , but devote more time to teaching you how to write. Some pro-tips for CI ... you need to register for the wait list and attend the first class. Good

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... what I wanted. I stuck with wall paints for the most part. I had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  excited to sign up for this class. Turns out, of course, that learning a new ... . This isn't true over IAP, so lots of people learn to "fend for themselves" by purposely choosing to go mealplanless and cook instead. I've been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  grad student for a while. At minimum two years, even more if I get in to ... you get funded for the degree). Apply to jobs in the real world ... the sailing class next semester, so maybe I'll get this to 50% before I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  floor but it's nice to know that i could if i wanted to. that's all for ... accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon Valley start-ups in the global fight for freedom--is of growing appeal to many policymakers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  time do you have of making new friends and getting to know new ... fraternities would be trying to get your attention - and fast. You might be ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every ... at Maseeh people for living so close to campus when you have to walk

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  last time, although forgetting to ask for names in a Google Form isn’t a high bar to overcome. My [annotation note="unfortunately, I couldn’t get ... clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  minutes later, I said to myself, "You know, I bet Google has an application ... uploaded all the photos I needed to upload to Google Photos using my Croque ... it's Google, it very well might be. Now I'm off on a bus to Aix

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... some pictures. Flying into the Dominican Republic: Getting closer to ... Dominican Republic. It was our third visit (click here to see last year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  for headers, logos, titles, and other large texts, as opposed to body ... ="83921" /] Here's a sign for Swapfest. From April to October, hundreds of Swapfest ... Courier New, the "9 AM to 2 PM" is Palatino Linotype, and everything else is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  ’d spotted on the map. I decided to shoot for it, telling myself not to get my ... Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask ... decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  internships for next summer, and to be honest, I would love to do something cool ... experience at a company that claimed to use AI for drug discovery, but seemed ... a lot of tasks that are currently tedious and unpleasant for humans to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  By: get a head start on 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms), applied to daily ... December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too ... terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  sadly entirely over, at least for now. I might get to help out next year ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat ... best way to learn is to push yourself so fast that you faceplant, and ... 've taken have been invaluable for this. They've given me the confidence to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends ... hoodies to wristbands to hats. Anything for your school, team, fraternity

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016