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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  adventures and collegiate experiences, and the possibility to make lasting ... options this busy week! I'd like to leave you with one part(y)ing shot. You're ... 'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  there are 2 things I want to cover first. Number 1: I answered your ... , to brighten up your day- on to the hack! Mysteriously during the night ... seriously and hurried over to get pictures before things were taken down

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  upon being recognized that I forgot to get to your name. Sorry about that ... Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  (to this day!). So, to (hopefully) make it up to Anjali, here's a much ... earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  back to the United States. Students (including yours truly) joined Boston ... in Boston to make plain their rejection of these policies and their ... measures in the Executive Order as a reasonable path to make the country

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  'm making it out to be, but it had a nice ring to it.) You'll have to get used to my parenthetical digressions if you're going to be reading this ... time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  lines “I’m going to try to make a step function in your data” – my ... first time, but much easier the second so this is your chance to do paper ... professor and your first practice will then make your first graded assignments

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  convince to apply. What matters is making sure that we bring smart students ... , according to Kahneman, might make you think that an expert is actually an ... , then your intuition is likely to be better than random chance. This, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  make to the civilians of Paris if a high school student from Portland ... virtue, however, is a contradiction: you're selfishly claiming to be ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  well those plans were working for me.) Of course, you're welcome to drop in on your advisor at any time to discuss classes, grad school/employment plans, or just life in general. Sometimes you have to make an appointment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  . As it happens, they turned out to be right. Listen to your elders, kids ... extension from S^3 when you’re literally too hosed to function. There are ... an extension if you explain your issues to them. All of that being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  . That your path isn’t something MIT sets you on, it’s something you make yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make wherever you are ... It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  because it's so difficult to make money otherwise. It's difficult to exist in this day and age and make a living for ourselves. It's difficult to ... money and means to do it, but you're in a box. You have enough affluence

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  heart. That's what I'm trying to do, at least. You're gonna be great. ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK. Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT ... “pass” on your transcript;  if not, there's no record you took it. The ... may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... we have not processed it. We will not look at your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  ask you to please be civil and kind in your comments in today's entries ... difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  more Martin will give, so make your gift right away!" It is pretty ... campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50 ... comes into play -- if you don't adjust for inflation, these amounts sum to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006