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• FAQ / Life and culture

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  website, you may follow the adventures of our student bloggers as they ... MIT doesn't provide names or contact information for current students. To learn more about MIT from a student's perspective, please spend time
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  am capped at this amount of information, I'll try to get some other MIT externs to write about what they're researching, so you'll get some idea of ... Countries Will Be Forced to Follow In 2003, the US Internal Revenue Service

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  problems of the next grade up feel super hard. But this means I am forced to ... mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  world-view shifted, to force me to see things from a different perspective ... , so that sometimes it’s similar to that moment where you’re terrified of ... edge due to General Institute Woe) takes this as some kind of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  of reading and a lot of internet. I read the MIT website, I read the Newsweek college guide books, and I read all sorts of websites that had neat ... kind of funny and I don't think it was intended to have this much of an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... demonstrations. Sodis uses a method of water disinfection intended for the household level that takes advantage of solar properties to treat water. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... process of re-branding its pre-existing process to sound more green.  The ... went through the list of challenges and narrowed down to which ones

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing ... to the public understanding of science and technology. It is also ... this fall: Gives a broad understanding of what it means to produce

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break ... IAP. Some of my friends are doing GTL, where you go to another country

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  ways of thinking. Your desire to skip classes increases exponentially ... , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  January?" Please email admissions at mit dot edu to advise of January tests ... she draws really well, she might want to send some of her drawings in ... 'd like to share, but I'm worried that I'm already pushing the patience of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  we really know how, Unified forces us to learn fast and ask for lots of ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  and all you want to say is “This weather is wild” and “It’s that time of ... forced them to do a math competition for extra credit, or maybe they just ... person wants is to hear me boast or make fun of them. This doesn’t mean I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  the MIT Class of 2012 will treat you to a rousing litany of Academic ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There ... to wonder if you've slipped onto the other side of the bell curve

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures ... raise no shame."]to answering lots of questions,[/annotation] even in a ... guest lectures on a variety of topics to give more specifics on industry

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  with Google's directive of "Don't be evil." It's a refreshing honesty ... all about it, work with a room full of creative geniuses to craft the ... -acquainting myself with the mystical ways of the Mac (which has been dead to me since

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My ... weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to ... lot of pset groups like to meet up in East Campus, because when it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012