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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... : academics, research, student life, Boston/Cambridge, MIT culture. What makes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to ... confusing. You are expected to make the connection between the general concept ... . The reason is that MIT is designed to keep you uncomfortable. Making the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and entertaining, but right now we would like to emphasis something you should take ... art and make door decorations to liven up your new dorm rooms! While

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  then makes you want to beat your head against the wall. The Pythagorean ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  to talk about how to make blog posts, the few guidelines we have about making posts, and to meet the new and senior bloggers. This year ... heard someone tell you that they won't be honest with you? It makes me

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... that involved referring to other people by name and some amount of ... dance club to scratch my itch. by convention, everyone wears badges when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by ... rejected by them, teehee. Essentially, I wanted to join a business club ... backgrounds. I was a little intimidated by them, but after getting to know them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  alternatively, 6.0001 and 6.0002. When my advisor asked me to make a graduation ... .0002. Swayed by the promise of pandemic PE/NE grading, I reluctantly decided to ... credit for 6.0001, by taking an advanced standing exam, didn't go so well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to ... back, for 5.07: Biological Chemistry. There's something to be said for essentially being forced to copy out every intermediate in every major metabolic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  felt no longer threatened by their presence; I grew to like it. It ... an event hosted by my dorm building. I became so attached to the little ... manner to start my day. I attempted to emulate it by setting my alarm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  Yo-Yo Ma when he came to Boston in an outing organized by the Burchard ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... . :) --- Since coming to MIT, I've channeled my love of history by teaching a 6

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  skeletal remains by tending to it as a garden.  The Welsh word for children ... separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  .g. TDC for 2015, 2014, and 2013). In recent years, in an attempt to make ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do ... according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... ). I’ve been to county fairs with craft exhibition booths and ventured to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  'll have to make due with this video I made but never got around to posting ... people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  personal side to your knowledge that might make it even more interesting ... during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars ... decision making process to working in global e-lance economies, to thinking ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  's turn to prepare food. We decided to go with the Hallooween theme and make ... sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking ... breaking abilities. But now I know. =) I first learned to appreciate the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  in, in a way that feels most true to me.  - By the way, just make ... arises. It makes me more sensitive to the social rules that we have and ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore ... to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019