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• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  , quickly) You're supposed to cut your spaghetti while you're eating it ... , do you want a fail proof way to know which bread and drink are yours? If you make a "b" with your left hand and a "d" with your right hand

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  interviewer in your area. You can always write to [email protected] to ask ... . So in your case, this becomes not about your answer to the question ... want to hear. If, however, you expand your answer to really cover why

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  how painfully obvious that was. Of course you have to do your best. How ... 's or about getting in to your dream school. "Being the best you can be ... you actually are and who you want to be, know your strengths and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  Morgan told my postdoc, an MD/PhD named Albert, to make a knockout mouse ... nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be ... actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  action needed to be taken by you. You are at no disadvantage of your ... more you need to do. I assure you we will have your scores in plenty of time to make a decision. You are not at any disadvantage. If you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career ... Fair I proudly declared to all potential employers that I’m “planning to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do things, it's to make sure that things get done." i've learned that it doesn ... . how to be on top of your email. i've learned that mit runs on email, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  : Dear Undergraduates, Have you ever wanted to make a difference? Have you ... new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team owns. If you wish, you can then command your armies to attack, defend or

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  seniors. You do, however, have a book that you're returning to the Coop ... .02! So you skip off to Burton-Conner and attempt to learn 18.02 and do your ... your many fits of frustration. So you decide to punt the thing - for now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... time to send along another copy. Your complete application will be ... are still missing parts of your application, fax your materials to 617

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  to hear about the cool thing you did this week. Physics doesn’t make sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want to hear about the spontaneous adventure you took today. You’re worried

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  numbers to us, you are human beings. So when I see your names, I think of ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom ... . Go, Mom, go.) If you're a younger student looking to apply to MIT ... students were accepted to MIT, they wouldn't make up the majority. So it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  solutions to all your design criteria, and then your proposed solution is just ... your solution to a problem, pi is the ith particular subproblem, and s ... incredibly difficult to make work correctly, so we abandoned it for a much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham ... was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... 've yet to apply, this will help you out. Go back in time to your earliest

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a Google search, those in their ben ming nian (birth year) may encounter

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  to make it up there! But it was SO COLD. So although it took a ... Tetazoo. Last spring, I joined Tetazoo on an adventure to Rumney, New Hampshire to camp outside the MIT Outdoors Club's (MITOC) Camelot cabin and go

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... be making an official announcement until March 6. Please hold your ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  people to death and they make the rest of your day a blessing). Talk to ... 't hope to answer everyone's questions and echo all of your feelings, but I ... far away from your host dorm room, or you go back to your room to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019