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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the interview. First, it is your responsibility to arrange the interview. You

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  breaks. Besides, I get to do awesome stuff no one else gets to do, like climbing up the slides on foot when people get stuck. =P Anonymous said: umm ... have taken. I don't think the class is going to be easy, but it starts at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  've been to and yes, people at MIT get fit and are swole. I love the Z with ... the fun things about going to college is having to relearn and adapt to ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... ’m desperate to avoid blogging, and I blog whenever I should be studying. At the ... magic trick. The assignment was to either invent a magic trick that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  bogged down by this, we will have to grant the existence of some morally ... bound to the other rail in the train variant could plausibly attack (1) by ... made to sound implausible by invoking extremes such as “What if the baby

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  ." Just watch the video - it speaks for itself. A big thank you to all the coordinators for the work you put into organizing this!! (by the way, today was ... on a big show to the surrounding community, MIT alumni, and just anyone

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  weekend, I blew off steam by going on retreat with my hall (3rd East) to New ... . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... areas are privy to more opportunities than others, and the admissions

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  everyone else's blogs. I would be happy to get feedback from my readers on ... if I'm actually going to be effective at dealing with the issues ... on what it would be like to be a hacker at MIT, the actual accounts of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  recognition software]. I would end up borrowing my roommate's face to get the ... 't been audited for accuracy. Here's the catch: with some initial tests to ... been a part of the Center for Civic Media...just having the freedom to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out ... sophomores do when we get stuck on chemistry pset problems, and help in the ... could never help him with anything, so I’m paying him back by doing the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was ... , the default choice to get Flat Ryan. Perk No. 4. (These are all ... waffle, though. In other news, 12 days until I get to see the real Ryan

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  … or by Oct. 30th as the last email from MITPE commanded…Maybe it’ll get ... choose to complete the second half during either the spring semester or IAP ... are course 6! I have got to taste some of this, the computer science

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam ... would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... trip to this campus which I think really changed the way I’ve viewed my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ZigZag Episode 8 A new video podcast episode.

  

  Episode 8 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now; I serve as host for this episode. My favorite part was getting to interview the "red jackets," MIT's 50 year reunion class: the Class of 1956. Check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free ... Columbus Zoo. I managed to make my annual trip to the zoo last summer, but ... withheld dinner from me until I agreed to go to the movies. Being wily and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  really got the chance to get superrrr close to people. This didn’t mean I ... potential to take on each of these personalities to get the girl (in this case ... this, get to know the people. The letters don't make a fraternity, the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015