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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  blog ,it may help her. Thanks Oh boy, I could go on for hooours about the ... 's perspectives on the topic here. I said: I'm off to grab some food, head to a 2 ... get off campus for awhile. I'm even more confident to not continue on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... things. Also, lists are really easy to comment on, because you can say ... air travel, you'd think I I would never step foot on a plane again. When

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  line, it's a step function. And sometimes all you can do is just hang on ... physics their first semester here. The vast majority take a course on ... some people...and simply doesn't for others. (Karen has more to say on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  sooner ("just tell me the decision ALREADY!"). But more on this at the ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of ... of 2011) are also the first year in which a 5 on AP Biology is no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  ? On on side I can get a PC with tons of programs, downloads, familiarity, and 'cheap' prices. On the other side, I can get a Mac with it's super ... comes to OS, so I plan on just sticking to Windows, far superior. Although

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on ... . ------------------------------------- Am wrote: "I was admitted early and definitely plan on going. At what ... . These decisions are made on a case-by-case basis by the Dean and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Thanks, everyone, for your feedback on the admitted students parties ... . Thanks Asli! Alex reported on the Austin meeting: It was a lot of fun ... stories too. It was great. [Alex] And Victoria and Lupe on the Bay Area

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  On today, Ben Jones's last day at MIT (no!), let's take a look back ... design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the ... period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , so I might be on to something?  HIGH SCHOOL I started running ... where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better ... is (almost) 4, rinse and repeat. When I was on the track and the pain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... place It won't hurt ever again --and two main things on my mind: MIT ... social life early, and get a head start on exploring networking

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  on metal and mortars at Pompeii, set Tetazoo loose upon society ... down on your enemies. [carousel image1="101210" image2="101208" image3 ... around the courtyard and running around on the castle walls. I tried to get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  modern writings (which I got a lot of inspiration for). Ultimately, on all of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... ="alignleft" width="1000"] Picture from 2021![/caption] The flowers on cherry blossom

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  train: #5, currently on time listening to: 鱼丁糸, “I Don’t Care (鱼版)” Good ... here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... pretty uncomfortable. Fortunately, it is well warm enough on the train; I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be published the day of graduation, and maybe one or two process blogs on a few ... had to learn to put that desire aside and focus on the more hands-on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  eloquent take on JLab. So yeah, last fall I took 8.13 (aka Experimental ... devoting to this class on a weekly basis. The majority of MIT classes are 12 ... lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... BULLETS for Joe Checkelsky!!! When I hopped on the Zoom, I saw this kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  general rationing problem in which some people must lose out on what is ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... if we extend the situation to an unequal loss of lives depending on the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  what it's like to be an admissions officer on the road. Tuesday ... Beverly Hills and went to bed on East Coast time. Wednesday, September 3nd ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also ... : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... sharpener, also from Max. Paint I got on my desk while painting my room at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014