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• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  the interview below:       This is the first time ... demand in the comments below, here is Holly's list of scams (TM): Living ... Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in LA and got back just the day before the first day of classes. I ... later for my 9 am class on the first day of classes. I was beyond tired the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off-track ... , Reading and Writing Short Stories. On the first day of class he made it ... time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  keeping track of all of my computer activity since September 2013. The ...   Recruitment of Volunteer Human Subject “Alright, that concludes the cool ... nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  to the official rules page of the program website, “Any physical ... Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I ... tomorrow! OK – not really true. But the sense of freedom and spontaneity, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  form of food that we still call pasta, like chili) for the whole hall ... their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more ... rollercoaster     It is now the day after the first day of school’s eve, more commonly known as the first day of school. I walked into the first lecture of

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design ... condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of ... to be above average. So one of the most important things you'll learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of ... MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  . She's equally (and differently) impressive in person. The whole night ... months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of ... justice instead of problem sets for a night. The week continued. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when ... that I was not looking forward to, but one of the biggest aspects of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum, grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that ... our Tests and scores page.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 ... period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the ... print. First I’m going to frame the situation. Let’s start here: Last

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  pages of the comic here, but sign up for their newsletter to get the full ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  intensity of the first word, the adjective, was the independent variable we ... , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... out what parts of the brain process which visual cues. The conference

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  other interns…as well the quirky side of Beijing. A few days ago, an ... Restaurant. The first thing we see inside the narrow entrance. This was our ... 's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... each direction. Of these two, the one closest to the wall is the lane for ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently ... , who got her master's in aero/astro last spring. (Yes, two of the people ... I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006