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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  maybe I'll just have to walk to LA. I'm sure it will be awesome. At any ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester ... . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you’re ... you want to add yours (Doesn't have to be Facebook lol). The tech is ... but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  students, when you made up your college list, did you apply to the most ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... applying to. They didn't really have anything in common except for being

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  learn so much from people without having to ever go so far. MIT really brings the world to your doorstep. You can meet a lot of new people, try ... , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... rights. Oh, and in case you're wondering -- this number has nothing to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... in all my classes now that I have more time to sleep and pset. As I ... don’t want to treat it like a technical class; I don’t have time for 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  ; And there you have it, your very own acrylic sign! Make sure to store at ... instructions will teach you how to make your very own acrylic signage from ... Measurements, and Create Files With the idea approved, it was now time to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is an open forum to ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of ... , for the first time, wasn't too embarrassed to be the vocalist. I broke

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  financial aid package and you'll have time to consider your decision before ... ? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we will ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6 ... 't currently have a blog and you want to be considered, you should probably start

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue ... with an unbelievably fast time. However, they instead chose to use this ... front page of The Tech. Because, really, if you're going to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  spend a lot of time putting these programs together to answer your many ... months talking to your offspring about the college process. I must say that ... saying less. You must make your words count and you must help to keep your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  then. And though I still can't grow a decent beard, oh how the times have ... wins. Your Friends will see cool content they may have never stumbled ... love MIT, you may not want MIT to be where your friends are, jumping in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent ... Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... , someone is always going to undercut you and counter your "I only got 5 hours

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  that in years past~) Believe it or not, though I have been to Ethiopia ... , from absorbing the traditional rules of Chinese hospitality to having the ... connected now than ever. I don’t have to seek out other mixed people to relate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• 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.

  

  her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... 'd want to go somewhere else for graduate school. Your research interests ... place. If you're considering a career in academia, you probably ought to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  words, I don’t have to spend that much time outside of class on homework ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you’re

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  to have friends like them. So don't worry. I know exactly what you're ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... from time to time. :-) I am also publishing this because (a) I really

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency ... since middle school, and now that I’m here I practically have to pinch ... ’m at this school. That, and I have trouble waking up to alarms. So this

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008