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• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  if you do have a spelling error? It's certainly not fatal, but it ... students who talk about taking "discreet math." Is this math that you do ... on Microsoft Word to proofread your essay -- you'll want to take a keen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  other paper, by a lot I would do a confidence interval but not when n = 2 ... thank god that makes my life a lot easier   1:35 pm: me, to google ... The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  supposed to give you a ten-minute buffer if you have consecutive classes. Do ... time, to do this certain thing. It’s a rewarding type of [annotation note="I like Google’s definition of busyness: 'the state or condition of having a

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... was nice to know that we had a built-in time to de-stress by cooking ... I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  : Why do you or don’t you feel a personal obligation to 'buy local ... town center. Do NOT stare at a cow in the eyes! And especially don ... a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  ) 687-9184. Q: Where do I send my high school transcript or updates? A ... edu. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your ... MIT tracking system. What should I do? A: Log in to your MyMIT account and click

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  . Yet Thresher’s words do not promote a particular issue or ideology ... of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  - Ben-o - Jones THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF: - I'm creative - I care about people - I'm a good dad THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT ... | The Joshua Tree - Death Cab | Transatlanticism TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  it locally from a file on my computer. Or, more often, what I do is ... using google sheets over a local file because it has nicer version history ... where I hypothesize about a trend in the data, do an analysis to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  rocket O look its a shiny new dime That'll help me with paying up Thinking ...   a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... first things I learned as a student here is that you can’t be good at/do ... actually made a blank google doc. I guess I have been afraid that when I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  game, then they send out an invite on google calendar. yes, a google ... 're doing it to make a deadline, or because you're forced to. but if i tell my ... where i want to work—i stop myself. i try to do something else. read a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  album, and it really helped me de-stress. it was such a simple, low ... me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the only thing i can do right now. i'm getting enough sleep, but i don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  process of making a phylogenetic tree (aka googling answers from biology ... football mascot by their weight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obtRtrk42a8 ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  -India Program 2011 Internship: Google India, Bangalore The project: Based on a language model we use a context to improve Google Search Result The host: I worked in a small software engineering team that are

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  In my last entry, Meagan said, "Anyways, could you please do an entry ... . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat ... talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into ... of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River (if you panned a bit more ... captures the Boston skyline from a different vantage point than Arya's photo ... 's Museum of Science, which features a lightning show by the world's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  (This is a direct paste from an email.) The Undergraduate ... - 5 PM Where: 2nd floor of the Student Center (La Sala de Puerto Rico) Take a look at the countless academic and cultural prospects that over 25

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005