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• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  -teeny-computer-count-in-hexadecimal and now we're making a car alarm system that ticks some timers and ... a lab assignment due tomorrow.     6.111 aka ... started off the semester with basic stuff, like incrementing a number when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  hemisphere. Students from these countries may apply to MIT before completing high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... was press a button to lock your car and you were good to go? Parking a ... like I am stealing, since I'm only unlocking a lock that is locked to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow, but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now, too? Guy: Really? Sam: Yeah, you just have to go back to the admissions ... that this entire enterprise is nothing more than a spinoff of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... 've admitted a class of students, we begin to court them once more. Shiny tubes ... have said yes; welcome to the family! Some have said no; we'll eat a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... figured it wouldn't be the worst thing if I stayed a little closer to home ... class works with a different client to learn and apply ideas about

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I ... the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because there's a bunch of kids who didn't get your spot. For those who didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time ... to a friend that I wasn’t able to lose any weight. I think he was sick of my whining, because he shot back a link to this book title and said

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  skated outdoors Went to [annotation note='during IAP with Concourse, a ... ']Learned how to use a hair stick[/annotation] Got stuck in a slinky Embarked on a solo quest to visit an [annotation note='Tomás Saraceno

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... 've contemplated several times about running off to a cabin to become a writer (which

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to ... : * (generally) higher pay (investment banks can pay up to around $10,000 for a ... academia more * opportunity to live in a different city * opportunity to see

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Pi Day! 3.1415926535...

  

  Just a little humor to keep us all smiling. HAPPY PI DAY (the ... Pi We know that Pi's a tasty treat. (to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree ... you want to impress your friends. Oh Number Pi Oh, number Pi Oh

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the production we were seeing involved a set weighing 45 tons... They had to build

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  general I taught PUF a “sit” command, but PUF is smart enough to ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... this up onto a loft. It didn’t look like it was small enough to be

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  before reaching a level of sci-fi hardcore known only to a select few. Next ... how you aren't allowed to do that. -Leave a comment on the blogs that ... things to do, check out a post Jess made a while back. She's better at this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024