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• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  us. It is the best way for us to be able to evaluate you fairly ... have anything you wish to be considered to us by the deadline or as close ... should I be doing. I am for "regular decision" by the way." And Casey wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... am no longer going to be a college athlete, I think I'd better start ... need for classes, then use a book search engine like this one to see how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... and personally, and it is hard in ways that are difficult to discuss ... extensions on assignments, looking for a way to cling to the raft of life while

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  March 18th. By the way Matt, does that date apply to international ... read by physics faculty...Will they ever have time to read all that ... to be sent this year? On March 14, 2005?" Elliot Lee asked, "Is there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my ... ! it’s 10-1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and although classes go by quickly ... —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my uber-awesome host Christina, who happened to be working at the ... two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  through sheer enthusiasm alone.  To be honest, I kind of miss the PSet ... Mechanics and Geotechnical Design Apparently, this class and 1.035 used to be ... this class more than I expected, to be honest. There are just 4 people in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  Here’s what it means to us to [annotation note="bee?"]be[/annotation] an ... ’s a pretty good gig, to be honest. This application was designed mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of questions that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  plan an achievable timeline for what needed to be done when, and by whom ... when I ask a question, it is not greeted by silence? I'd like to be able ... is part of the way to become a better leader. That, too, could be wrong

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  apply to several places, including Microsoft. To be honest, I was pretty ... motivation for my project was to test if we could quickly prototype an API (a ... bias in GPT-3 and other language models. Final thoughts I used to be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school ... attitude. I was going to be more positive and open and I was going to try ... group first semester. I was so happy to be around people that I liked and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  walk by the library on my way home from work anyway, so I stopped to ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it ... through the form of already begun works. There’s something to be said here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  don’t claim to be an expert at essay writing by any means, but I mean ... essay dissipate, only to be replaced by the gnawing anxiety of wondering ... only be understood by those who are prepared to recognize it. 2. Optimize

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some ... I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  particularly friendly, or, to be completely honest, even as[annotation note ... off steam when I'm frustrated or need a way to vent, or when I'm hanging ... now, just because it's a fun way to fidget. The first time I conducted

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  (you kinda have to be a nerd here). Now is probably the best time to ... return to. I was shocked how quickly MIT, and especially East Campus ... change that. Pretty incredible to have most of your friends also be your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn ... your construct? That's the kind of thing that can't be solved by ... them seem to be very interested in undergrads -- I think they find us

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Sometimes, frustration begs to be cartoonified. Inspired by Professor ... valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... Comp. Sci.,” etc. Math tends to be the all-purpose flour in MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  !!! (blog post coming soon) I'm not sure what motivated me to be way better ... a way to keep each other accountable for actually achieving some of ... gotten better at actually achieving goals I kept for myself. To be clear, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020