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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We ... students now have a whole bunch of stuff on their MyMIT portal, including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle. Now at first, I was a little confused. I didn't know if this was a minivan or a sports utility vehicle. It was a strange hybrid of sorts, but

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... "Sunshowers" by M.I.A. "I bongo with my lingo and I beat it like a wing, yo" 3 ... toe violently crushed by a small Jewish frisbee enthusiast two months

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  , partially because Nick had a history of doing such cool things, we had ... understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  grappling with serious personal issues, to go do a favor for the hot athlete ... . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  , unlike Spyfall, so there’s never a second where you’re not doing anything ... Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... would need to do it in a satisfying way.. ..which is okay! Because ... focus, work hard, and do amazingly well? But then maybe you feel compelled

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... following questions immediately. 1) When was MIT founded? 2) If MIT was a ... ) Do you agree that MIT courses are synonymous to downloading the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  what people would expect. So there’s kind of a split: do we go forward ... -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version. There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  , but that’s a different story, a different time). The most I can do is ... note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game ... ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes- khaki shorts and a lion-face-print top, since it’s a warm spring day and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... /fail UROP or as a graded UROP. But, note that if you are doing a Course 6 or ... A reminder: Fall 2005 UROP Direct Funding (Funds from UROP) Deadline

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  themselves to do things that bring you joy and relaxation. Go outside! Bake a ... that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of ... ’ve never felt so much joy from a season, a mere period of time defined by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do ... we learned all that by doing it. There was a great emphasis on reaching ... History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  stressed me out a bit. See, I was gonna write a musical programing language. "A novel way to write songs", I described it as! Then I started writing a parser and was like, "Aww crap. This is harder then I thought," so a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During ... wrote down a list of all the classes I was considering, worked out pros

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one ... parents a call.  But sometimes, you'll need more resources than those.  You

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011