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• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... other first-year programs.) They gave me the schedule, but also mentioned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  course. The central thesis of these pages is threefold: first, one cannot ... reason why all of us entered this profession in the first place: the ... In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  : [/annotation] 6.036 (Intro to Machine Learning, 12 units): One of the first ... of term. I learn how to pronounce “yacht” correctly for the first time ... , and I don’t think about the three whole paragraphs of hell that I just

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  already has its own Wikipedia page. I made you one. It will describe my life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of where documents are submitted, recommenders must fill out the MIT
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  the first 100 pages on the web) MIT Admissions Yahoo! MTV Perhaps ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... with my five sharpened pencils, opened the first page, and then I was all ... do hundreds of pages of practice problems in preparation for the next

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... the sense of different materials—I most often used one that was hard and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  . Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small Midwestern town located on the lower left side of the palm that is Michigan (I ... version of the cha cha slide and by the time I turned on my trusty, dandy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  get coffee. Coffee = bad! Here is my first page of 14.05 notes ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... like the taste of coffee. I oftentimes burn myself when pouring coffee

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... this summer and that I should perhaps fix the formatting of my résumé and ... the list of companies beforehand and had a rough idea of what industries

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  The Time Traveler Convention keeps getting bigger and bigger. Now, three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  you think the entry sucks, keep your mouth shut. =P First let's start with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you ... other side of the room. Anyway, the TV room is a cool place to hang out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  , alongside enjoying Minecraft YouTube. This was the first coming of Minecraft ... ASF, and really, all of TeamCrafted dominating the YouTube charts. Then ... first place, the magic of being reintroduced to it, and the genuine fun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  received and processed the letter on your MyMIT tracking page. Please allow ... and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  -colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... the left side of each page. So if you're checking out the page on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... of the upper-level classes/labs are only available in the fall or spring semester"]one of the less flexible majors,[/annotation]which makes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  it to the front page so more people would see it. None of this makes it ... . The first thing my colleague did when Mail Services called him was to ... want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  officially become a 6-9. I was definitely one of the first to officially be a ... experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

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

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  really am not the type of person that would willingly spend the first ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019