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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  though the supervisors provide reports where they predict how you'll do on ... for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... each paper and choose 5 questions to answer on each one. What this means

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... portion of the class focused on projecting an image out into the Internet ... made one focusing more on my goals of eating healthy and keeping fit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  wish I had a fedora and a whip (props if you have them on your first day ... Example – If we happen to be going to the beach early on a specific day, my alarm clock will decide to not work on that day and I will be left with an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  needn't have worried about my protein consumption on campus (I've been ... confused at high speed than standing still for weeks on end. My 5 ... whether it will go on this way, blurs of weekdays punctuated by fast

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  a professor who's an expert on 18th century British literature. She ... 're interested, here's more detail on the classes I'm taking this fall: 8 ... and pushes you to come to the answers yourself; I walked out on Monday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  fantastic opportunities in the past year. Ministry of Supply got to present on ... observe a fish is to become a fish.’” He took a class this semester on ... of Supply’s goal for 2012? Kevin says they’d love to be on Comedy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if ... , each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and ... for us to monitor what was going on during the simulation. We wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My ... jumped up and down and grabbed each other and tried to climb on the table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of ... individuals, who are on fire for God, in order to learn Israel's importance to ... at American Airlines working on several projects within the facilities

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  . Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I ... on College Confidential (if you don't know what I'm talking about, don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several people affiliated with MIT put on a live webcast from 77 Massachusetts ... flattering, sure - though depending on who you are, that Sheldon Cooper

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... make sure that YOUR name appears on the money order! Bugs Bunny, Santa ... working on that involved highly enriched uranium........that would be

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  quiz bowl format features teams of students from each school competing on ... ; early on, the perspectives he gained convinced him to consider a career in ... a teacher," he said. The math teacher was a great influence on his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  wrote this on Saturday night, after the decisions came out. Different ... own balance. Keep on smiling. I'll keep you in mind. :) ----Long ago ... murmurs that resembled the angry buzzing of mosquitoes on a summer day. The

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  concentration on one beautifully hand made piece of artwork, an opportunity to ... little lead pellets as ammunition. My pellets sitting on top of my freshly ... out the letters "MIT" on three separate targets and decided to shoot

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the ... résumé and started working on this whole "summer internship" thing. Should ... performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  . They’re pretty cute, since I had absolutely no idea what was going on, or ... that you’re not completely sold on MIT yet. Perhaps a friend of a friend ... nerds (yuck!) To be fair, this depends on your definition of nerd

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs ... undergrad, your social culture, in my observation, depends largely on two ... , because before college, I had no idea what was going on around me in terms

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too. On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... 'm seriously considering.) Like Jessie wrote about, the Task Force on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The ... buttons. 3:30 PM: Professor presses button and turns on a camera that videotapes him writing on the board behind self, putting self on camera

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006