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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  admissions at mit dot edu or a fax to 617-258-8304 (don't forget the country ... -to-faculty ratio is 7:1, and I never felt like just a statistic at MIT. Don't expect ... seek out professors at MIT, but when I did, I was always welcomed. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  national honors do. Why? Look at MIT's motto, Mens et Manus -- Mind and Hand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  Google Glass, and each team of two would be working with their own pair of Glass..es? Google Glass glasses? Goog- whatever 2) After the 6th week ... . It was amazing and foreign and scary and perfectly reasonable at the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees ... then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk ... 't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  song went We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January This is ... although last year I was happy here at MIT, even called it home out loud, it ... 's frosh."]move[/annotation]at the end of the year. And now in sophomore year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  not today at all, but rather two years ago. More precisely, senior year ... . Laugh at it. Make a reading list. Try to finish it Read book ... friends at night (e.g., suprising another friend at their music performance

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  sandwiches and phalanx-like carrot sticks at exactly 11:55 AM. Never did I ... *, probably because it was taught at 11:54 AM and my watch was running fast that ... semester was like eating a large bowl of Lucky Charms at 5 AM after spending

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  all meals that I’ve enjoyed at home, at some point, made from memory or ... the Concert Choir at MIT calls him “Bill.” four. I’ve been sad this ... —my communities at MIT have truly made me feel at home, and I always call my parents

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  Ivy League on april 1st." I wouldn't presume that at all. I know folks ... all of these schools look at admissions somewhat differently. Above all ... admissions officer glances at in an application? Do you guys (officers) have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  some colloquially refer to as the duKor-Jackson scale, even though my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  infiltrated the Google Pittsburgh office this summer as an intern. Disclaimer ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the ... . These opinions are in every way my own and don’t reflect Google’s views

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  between the courses you're interested in and major requirements. At MIT, a ... week; three units are equivalent to one traditional credit-hour at other ... , if you're really unlucky, 15, 18, 21, or 24. If you're taking at least

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  them is checked out at the library ^^;       (nf ... ’ve been trying to diversify the books I read. I’ve at least successfully ... the book that I have re-read every summer of college, from 2014 til now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a ... Killian Court, but since then all my Google News feeds seem to be telling me stories about getting out the vote at the grass-roots level, I'm going to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... unexplored Google search territory as possible without becoming so ... nonexistent after one year at MIT. I've also quit using alarm clocks, blankets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  . At your leisure. I mean, because it still applies here--you, too could ... minutes later, I said to myself, "You know, I bet Google has an application ... uploaded all the photos I needed to upload to Google Photos using my Croque

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd ... at least one slam or three (or many more), or an open mic (or even both ... remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  a Victorian woman but now creates chaotic Google Docs at 2AM (though ... middle school Google Drive purge, and will someday be a kind MIT stranger

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... " align="aligncenter" width="800"] google doc from high school[/caption] It ... spreadsheet or productivity app. However, I didn't like Google Sheets or

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020