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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  your heart of gold Ian) and my professor eventually agreed to let me turn ... take to replace your grade in one of the three units, but I was so ... /or your professors when you're having a hard time :)"]she offered to open up

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  or Wellesley for those esoteric art classes, but you're going to want a ... over the river and through the woods) to my grandmother's house for the Traditional Christmas Eve Dinner of beef and noodles. Then we will go to church

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  MISTI is pleased to announce the launch of its eleventh country ... MIT faculty and students to connect with research and innovation in ... students with internships and research in Chilean companies and labs

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get to know them a little better. If you're nice to them, they might be ... struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... making any of that happen because it was something that future me would

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things ... ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  enjoyed her company, and am glad that I stayed up instead of going back to ... giving it some thought, I answered: “to make the most of this last year of ... more time to make it to Emeryville; I chatted a bit with some folks about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  "]IAP[/annotation], i began to cook™ for myself often. i would buy weekly groceries, make ... , i slowly made an active effort to make the place i lived in, mine ... , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  but even more so now. Sometimes we have to dip into other worlds to make ... intergalactic company and hired out as a bodyguard to a group of scientists ... . Thoughts: SPOILER WARNING -- skip this section if you wish to keep your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  you like to see your scores?" There were two options, "View Scores" and ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

   influential committees that inform Institute affairs, make policy recommendations to serve ... people to apply to a program and stay there, or why none of our websites ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  programs, but they’re cool to know and can make your life easier. I completed ... I didn’t have time. Or I didn’t make time. I have been wanting to make ... what stirred me to just start doing and creating and making ~something

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  deadline to contact your alumni interviewer (Educational Counselor, or EC) is Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC's contact info, and make the call today! Now, what if you're applying for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  member of the other team, who had come running over to make the block. Foot ... lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was about to start playing Ultimate Frisbee. The teams stretched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... 's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative ... excitement, also known as passion The ability to balance your coursework with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  companies might in some cases have an obligation to experiment on their users ... obligation to test and publish the potential outcomes of something you’re doing ... little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  of free speech to airline companies. I'd go back in a femtoheartbeat ... -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be ... ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog’ to me since she has decided that there are better and productive

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  make reasonable suggestions I might comply with your requests. ... I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT ... been posted already, and I'm not sure what you guys want to hear about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  out with your heart to a bunch of strangers. A little scary, isn't it ... already turned in your applications. And yes, you will be accepted to ... your schoolwork!). Because eventually, you're going to get to go to that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007