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• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to educate myself about anything that might be relevant to my 12-year-old self

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another ... admission, simply need to move on, acknowledging that enrolling at MIT is not an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  hardware language, even though we didn’t get to work with hardware :( I ... . Although I didn't get the chance to take this class with Professor Sheffield ... to come to class anyways, so why not get paid for it.” Paid notetaking

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  that last one up), but it mostly just boils down to you getting hosed by ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... art style is very unique, and although it took a bit of getting used to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  through to get where they are today, but there’s something about the phrase ... acting as a role model for others. Get involved, network, talk to people, talk to non-science people. Let’s get this conversation going and we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  your first trimester grades. Please be sure to get your official midyear ... purposes: to get your updated grades since you have applied ("Midyear Grades"). to get any other updates since you submitted your application ("Midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  reminded him nicely yesterday to GET IT DONE). Now there's nothing to do but ... Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of ... you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another ... the MyMIT section on interviews. To get to this page, which has ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the ... even want a shot at getting into these classes”. Well, this was news to me! I was left scrambling at the last minute to try and get into a

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation ... and in other arenas. I'm looking ahead to next summer to maybe get an ... (which is fair), so I'm excited that I finally get to represent my hall. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... starts working on the kitchen table, next to me. I get my laptop and do the ... people outside a certain group, but walking to parks, getting groceries and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  to college admissions, once you get past the surface differences.) One ... spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real world. So, I've begun to search for the perfect job to excite, challenge

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... time for BATMAN! I was supposed to get there at 10 but was about five ... 't get to actually watch the movie, but I respect you for that. Treat

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  for snickerdoodles at LaVerde's, and they needed to get baked -- I find ... grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! It's time to Later today you'll get more information about next steps for admitted students via email and MyMIT. But for now, go celebrate!  

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.

  

  2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream...

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006