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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... outlining your plans to our office: Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  even one second, your brain is forced to constantly be coming up with new ... free to get funky with this one and try reading your essay in Broadway ... wait, the smaller the statistical probability of your acceptance gets

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a ... to present MIT to the world under new light, exposing its ... Kickstart this project, you're not just getting a photobook, you're getting an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to ... WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  more details. You learn from your mistakes and get better at making ... optimized. Sometimes, things happen that are meant to make your story ... generator downhill and take it to a point where no new prompt I make will

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  just can’t seem to get your essays the way you want them to be. Hear my ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time ... since then as quickly as possible. To see what’s missing, log in to your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , then your math is going to be fragile and prone to collapse. You can ... that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... formula to exist.  Galois theory is related at least by analogy to a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we ... , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... . Even if your level of Wikipedia-involvement is limited to searching for ... that make me happy. (Props to you if you get all the references. A couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  picture. We could verify this by trying to get a picture from the same ... students to get to Harvard"]1 bus.[/annotation] Just to the left of the ... , and has never been demolished or modified, as confirmed by their website

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  Culture classes. To see some sample videos, visit his website at www ... (Course 15) and Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18C), showed up to ... at her and possibly send her to MIT Medical. Anna has every music lover

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  week to get out 14 NEW BROTHERS (note the excitement). Anyhoo, for those ... think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties, then you're correct. So this past weekend, my fraternity hosted a party

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about creativity, product design

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay ... YOU NOT LIKE FAST FOOD!!!??? Ahha love to hear your response on that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our ... get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you’re ... is to say, if you’re a curious person with an open mind, you can ... you’re a beginner, you’re mostly learning generalities and new

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Get a discount on Bose products Visit Singing Beach at Manchester-by ... What's that? You're dying to find out how we managed to ice skate on Frog ... back to MIT, we had one day to: Run a bridge loop Try some New England

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting ... , so this is my favorite way to order food. In addition to getting to ... Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  kind of meditation could. If you’re looking to get free, it’s there, you ... or whether you’re just listening to keep the silence at bay. Whether it ... ; Coming from New York, I had always been used to having a great music scene

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