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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  to fly. I'll admit, I googled "get cape wear cap fly" to find this ... seemed like we tried everything to get the reaction to happen on both sides ... expected” and ends, “And again, no stress. You’ll be fine,” you’re going to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  annoying, because it's alphabetical by school rather than what is to me the ... 's great to be in such a small department and get personal attention, but I ... or Wellesley for those esoteric art classes, but you're going to want a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask ... to or what to ask for. I started by asking one person… and they knew ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  out the change of major form by putting in your student information ... being nice to them will be integral to the smoothness of your major ... classes you've already taken in this major, a general plan to finish it by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  consider that. As for your independent thoughts -- it's not going to work ... HST, and they seem to think it's great. As for your second question, yes, it would be okay for you to submit your alternate response as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... smile to your face, even amidst all the bad. Here at MIT, we take them all ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... kids how to read. So have no fear kids, the fun never stops when you're

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  admission to be a worry.  If you have submitted your EA Part 1 but not ... submitted your EA Part 1, you will need to select "Regular Action ... rescheduled to November 17 (or 18), please fill out this form. However, if your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  by the sometimes not-so-friendly college competition to attend as many ... learn to motivate and support your understanding. Furthermore, whereas there is plenty of room at MIT to be intimidated by the freshman taking

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... . I transfect the cells, which means that I get them to take up a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  describes it, they expected to get back to campus and continue on with life ... . It has to be an idea you really like. Drew: Start early, and get a ... because you really want to make your project stand out since you put so much

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  these things aren’t super easy to come by! Regardless, we started ... days Cried for about an hour on interstate 90 :( Moved to Maine with ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  yoga/stretching type exercise to get us loosened up physically, and maybe an improv activity to get us loosened up mentally. Then we get to ... have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  to get your work done. The Students are very cooperative. The key is ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be ... are designed by the higher beings that pretend to rule over the planet

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  procrastination. Been there, done that. Also, get a sturdy portfolio to hold your ... you put on your résumé when you have nothing to put on your résumé when ... include my email, phone, and address. Some have asked whether to put your

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... than just that, and I have to get some time off of work sometime and just ... exhilarating to me. I couldn’t wait to get up here and experience weather that

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  materials. If you're good at self-studying, however, and have access to ... are! Courses are useful to some; I just like independence a little too ... the best: (1) Examkrackers - I didn't get to use their "1001 Questions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will ... On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012