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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  ? Let's do it! It all started a couple weeks ago, when I had an email ... : Advisor: "Yo dawg do you want to go to London next week?" Me ... morning. I have no idea who's going on the trip from MIT, nor do I really

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  calculus, I would suggest doing what you can to take classes at a community ... blog, you said that you wanted people to learn what people in STEM do in ... !) You talked about what you do at your desk (immensely entertaining and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  life and gave me instructions on where to go and what to do, gradually ... wrists, back off, spin 360 degrees, do a front flip, and then pull while ... myself!  I also get to buy my own gear and do whatever I want, no coaches

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  every student gets to decide what to do. They can stay at home, travel ... students do research, others take classes like 6.270, glass blowing, MASLab ... do things they normally don't have time to do. MIT also has one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  . Easier said than done though (where do you think the credit crisis came ... , some eat on campus for all their meals, and lots of people do everything ... that. 3.Buy Reusable Instead Of Disposable: Do your plates have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  had to do this on my own, so this isn't *technically* related to MIT but ... MIT (I'm probably going to do this finally during my senior year) yet, I ... do, such as sushi chefs arranging and rearranging the placement of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next ... folks again this time to do some research on the payload (science ... noise, and in doing so calculate the photometric precision or resolution

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  of the "21"s. Most MIT students can do that. Seriously. It's kind of ... "secondary" major, but they do get the opportunity to explore that major more ... that they already knew what they wanted to do with their degree, so they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  do you make the professors love you? Well, my closest professor friend is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of ... ... Is it common/uncommon to go into Boston a lot or do people generally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... was pretty sad for me- I got to watch people doing a lot of stuff that I ... doesn't do so hot in the actual competition, you can still get some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is ... , I do a lot of things involving math and computer science and both. Why do you do math? [annotation note="Fatima: I took Algebra I with

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  doing the internship application grind a few weeks ago. i've been doing ... hence the last "real" chance i get at doing an internship. the whole ... point. i don't know what i want to do. before coming to mit, i had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  .042, despite doing poorly in the class. It's ironic, because I actually had a C ... could do this whole compsci thing, futzing around with circuits and wiring ... really do, in fact, like this whole computer science thing, even if it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  I don't feel like trying for this post. lol I tried to do this style ... time a *little* bit better than I usually do. One of my biggest flaws as ... this summer. I do always feel a lingering guilt at not [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  actively bad all the time. They feel awful, no matter what they do--just standing, or sitting, or doing work. They don’t simply feel unable to feel ... way out of your stomach, and there’s nothing you can do about it, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  attributes, different ways of thinking, different ways of doing things. And the ... absolutely confident that you can do well here and we have to be confident that ... everybody, but we do need SAT and ACT scores for those students who might not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  Science program does not disqualify you, either. You do not have to have done research in high school to be admitted to MIT. We do hope that even ... research program. If you are doing that, then you'll be as competitive in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  wonder what does MIT do with our (for those reapplying) old application folders. Do they open them again? And if yes, what impact do they have on ... trackin said you never got it. so what can i do to obtain that info for sure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  thing is, though, that in this video, he isn't rejected, and they do let him climb inside the firetruck! So I said I was gonna do it, I was gonna ... gonna do this season[/annotation]. Then he asked if we wanted trading

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  can be tough because it feels like there's nothing that you can do, but

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025