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• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  -credit classes that do have tests and homework, but they’re definitely the minority ... do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my ... things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... . Tell us a bit about your experience as an MIT student. What did you do ... Untravel Media? Do you feel that MIT prepared you well to be an entrepreneur

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  who are experiencing situational financial difficulties. Why do we ... have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  people in your life during your senior year. So what is it that GCs do ... process. So what can you do to maximize this relationship and make it work ... GC. Do you even know who your GC is? If not, find out now. Usually

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... weeks. In short, I am a glorified counselor at nerd camp. I do, however

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  preparing in the summer hols. I am doing AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C ... 't feel pressured to do so. Anonymous asked: I'm confused on the CI-H stuff ... need to do after that is a HASS concentration and another HASS-D, and all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  pset this year took me about 3 hours to do while the longer ones have ... being able to do physics so quickly that he is a veritable blur. This was ... someone starts doing calculus of variations. The rest of lecture was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  swim well enough to pass the swim test. The swim test involves doing four laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do whatever stroke you want; all you have to do is complete the required

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  instance, many people in Boston do like the Red Sox and say "ah" instead of "r"; many girls do like to talk about their feelings, and many white boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  previous entries... ------------------------------------- JKim asked, "Do you ... opprotunities? A generic answer is "Judging them in their 'contexts'", but how do ... our situations ourselves? Furthermore, do you consider activities that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  : do you know anything about that? Diana: definitely...it was a smash ... street location, they said we couldn't do that Diana: last year a couple ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  neurotoxins. Also some material about what different groups of cells do together ... of a language consist of. It asks how do children learn languages and is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  person who's not very good at maths...would you get in? And suppose you do ... theoretical, do the professors require that you've taken certain courses before ... majors do in their UROPs, but a list of helpful hints from the physics

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  than I enjoyed my day job, so I did what any good MIT grad would do: I ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni ... 't change any of it. I happen to love what I do every day. I am still active

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  engineering department. I had to do my senior engineering project, and my ... training center in Colorado to do some biomechanical work, so I decided to do ... through biomechanics, but my particular interest is baseball. What can I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  , "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a ... institutions asked to make sure we are happy and doing well. Even if you don't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  science?" The Registrar's office says that 460 students do not have their ... EECS (and many EECS majors do), you can continue towards your second ... freshmen classes? When do we register for those classes. Are there any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  had a spreadsheet open, and was doing something horrifying with Leo ... them do an exercise. The instructions are simple: split up all 168 hours ... been doing this since our freshman year. It’s a smart idea; the goal is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  MIT competitive? As said in my last answer, no. I do not think MIT is ... so willing to help. They are willing to drop whatever they're doing ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  this mistake infinitely many times in the past, continues to do so now, and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don ... her wherever she ended up going to college (she's now doing some crazy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012