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• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of people to come just by buying a bunch of these cannoli and advertising them ... talk into the benches. You can also try getting a friend, putting your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  an equality, and here is that example: Take your set $A$ to be the set ... )\cdot (\text{inches}^2)\cdot (\text{inches}^2)]^\alpha.\] Hence, to get ... proving this fact, but to do so we will need some new and better ideas

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  choose to say, you should support your contentions with close examination ... assignment asks us to examine ethical questions raised by, and in the context ... of MIT's new Initiative on Technology and Self, which is working to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  if you're not sure you're going to go right away" (oops), we ate at The ... able to do any work at all. Also, we have a totally sweet new 3-axis ... it came together, finally. So Wednesday I went to check out our new

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  5-8 for dinner. If you eat lunch at noon or 1, you're going to get ... runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you're ... need to remember. (I solve this problem by buying anything and everything

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not ... be subjected to the new modular lab requirement. These were the three ... anything new. I bought the camera to celebrate the end of my dual degree

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  . If you're right, you get points; if you're wrong, no one else on your team can answer and the other team gets to hear the rest of the question ... drove two hours to New Haven on the morning of and two hours back the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... art style is very unique, and although it took a bit of getting used to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... move to the bay area or new york after graduation to work in generic b2b ... influx of new tech and finance employees to an infestation of bedbugs. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  want to get back on running, but honestly even just seeing the Charles on ... . I love the diversity of it, from skyscrapers to brownstones to the New ... ="well, technically all of them were used"]new[/annotation] books since getting here

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... in a show, but would like to try something new this IAP. You are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our ... were itching to get better at illustration, we saw Chroma at the ... As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  out a number which reflects your chances of getting into MIT? First of ... to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... 't apply 500 times to MIT in a single year, or even in your lifetime, so it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  my freshman year. The next morning, I walked to MIT Medical to get ... this first week. I haven’t left my room except to get my second COVID ... food is still mostly up to par"]get dinner.[/annotation]Some things have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  our peer institutions; students here are less impressed by your ... this is unconscious -- when you're surrounded by smart people doing cool ... join the group by learning how to push yourself and produce good work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  . If you don't want to take my word for it, comment with your must ... . If you're still worried, there are services available to help you succeed ... experiences. ^_^   4. How do I enroll? Log in to your myMIT account and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  haven't been able to build up strength, but I feel I'll get it by mid next ... museums! I went to New York this past April and visited the Intrepid Museum ... more money. In 2021 I traveled to New York City, Chicago, San Francisco

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  finished off the trip by walking through the lovely city of pasadena to get ... ="attachment_45131" align="aligncenter" width="750"] my daily route to work as shown by ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  planned out courseroad. I would have to find a new training environment and coaches if I wanted to continue my skating career. I would have to make new friends, find a new community and living group, and adjust to an entirely

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... you. I should also note that if your gap year plans are not certain by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010