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• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  . I wasn't expecting that to happen...but through your comments, your emails, and even your random Facebook pokes, I genuinely became attached to ... 't "good enough," or that you won't go on to do something completely

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... folders are your complete admissions files; the green cards associated with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  semester is going to be class heavy because I'm doubling up on HASS classes ... resources and help to be found. On top of that, the lecturer, Professor Terman ... counterparts. Japanese is an interesting class that keeps you on your feet with

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don ... you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed to your field. They don't even care about your extracurriculars. Scary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  alarms of any dorm on the MIT campus. Because just because you go to MIT ... needs to evacuate. If something's on fire, cover it or throw it out the ... body to Mars" is "periareion." My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  :59 am you will invariably be glued to your laptop, frantically refreshing your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook ... seriously consider cutting your toothbrush in half to save weight.  Hey

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your ... how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  how much money you're spending on food. You also won't be tempted to ... exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to ... of your dinners, so you still have to pay, just not as much. There are

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  tunnels of building 66 had a big influence on my decision to come to MIT. I ... pandemic. Some people and I stayed up the whole night to watch the sunrise on ... ’ve been dragged and clowned for this but I’m willing to die on this hill. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  in on 6.006 I dropped 6.006 to Listener mid semester but continued ... .   participated in a quiz bowl tournament  some people on our floor were going to ... for a couple of the showings but we got to watch it together on opening

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ... friends, but also as a chance to get poke bowls at the mall, try out a new ... learned how to cook. My parents were never that big on cooking: I remember

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  country, or even allow people to think on a more national level. This ... ,728.94 And this really ought to concern you. If you're an MIT student voting in ... to this system by an Interstate Compact. Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  guidance counselors. We're excited to have these conversations with your ... Beginning this coming Sunday, April 26th, MIT will be going on the ... sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  form at MIT, please know that we appreciate your interest and thank you for your service. More information about applying to MIT is available on our veterans page. MIT has a growing community of veterans on campus
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  music, although it's rather dated. I draw on Tagalog to show ... 't generalize the reduplication to new words. If I invented a new verb, like to ... dalawa? The first word, magkaibigan "to be friends", has primary stress on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  student group on campus (246 of them!!!!) We'll all be vying for your ... service? Want to get involved with these activities at MIT? Then, come to the Activities Midway, on Friday August 31st, 4:00pm - 6:30pm in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  test out of it, you have to do all the problem sets for the class on your ... ability to study smarter than your average freshman. No doubt that any of ... --however, remember that you're going to be taking it with mostly sophomores (and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT, and sometimes go to trivia together, and eat each other's nachos: my ... to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  the GIRs your first year. If it suits you, it's certainly beneficial to ... IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole ... Friday by 11:59:59 PM. I love assignments due by email. :-) I still need to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006