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• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure ... initiative, it's your resilience, it's your ability to take feedback, it's your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  grades drop. Not choose another college to attend by May 1. What should I ... aid? You're not required to enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have time to consider your decision before letting us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  gets updated from its old value to the value on the right of the arrow, i ... prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the ... horror....) Well, that's all from me. Back to your regularly scheduled ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  (in which I get to play with the internet!), that zealous nature started ... somehow started to come easily. I feel invigorated by the work I do and what I'm learning, by my friends, and by all the sleep I'm getting :) I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  know what it's going to be about. Meanwhile, since I'm being hosed by my ... the eye, signal detection theory, and more, and we get to look at lots of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston ... your command. *goes to cross bridge* Um, crap, no sidewalk or bike lane ... thing about step by step directions instead of a map, one mistake and you're

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main ... dancing to kids' tunes. I like to come for the crafts and get stuck at a ... supporting a local business by going to see a movie and stopping by the museum

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the ... ’ve often found it difficult to get through historical books—admittedly, old ... with most other cryptography, no idea if I’ll ever get to apply it in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a ... underwear and then shivering in the sun trying to dry off, surrounded by my ... some notes for a poem I’m planning to write when I get back, just in time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... get taken. the third row goes from just me, to another person near the ... to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective ... distribution of hours, to give you a sense of how you will be spending your time ... , processors, and a basic operating system. By showing you how to take some small

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston ... summer experiences -- an engineering camp at New Mexico Tech and a trip to ... engineering is the field for him. Chemical engineers get to draw on math and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the ... the door by yourself, sometimes with a combat load dangling around your ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... would allow you to do awesome research as an undergrad. Has this been your ... it resonates with your interests. Analysis classes tend to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... to blogging propriety: "Imagine you are writing a letter to your ... standard upon myself. I can no longer rely on 'your mom' jokes to distract

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... pitch (paraphrased): “Here’s an opportunity for you to put 'employed by Eric Lander’ on your resume. Raise your hand if you want to help wipe the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  ethic. Oh, right. Well, what better way to spend your random 4-day weekend than by taking an 18-hour train ride down to the French Riviera? Now, it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006