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• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website. [If ... update on what you might want to be thinking about: For Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... my Christmas CDs for the last time. I like recycling wrapping paper

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online ... , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website ... , on the Khan Academy website.  
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  published online for you to look at, so I'm not going to bother publishing a ... Solving Puzzles for Mystery Hunt were continuously uploaded to the internet for us to solve. When a new puzzle was uploaded, a group of people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  everything indexes from 0 except for fake things like MatLab[/annotation note ... .02 problems and do them myself because they moved a bit too fast for me to ... 6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But do they really help?" Actually, some tests at MIT go beyond index ... characteristic. What sort of experiment would you design to find out Y?" For an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  [annotation note="Short for Identity, Sort, Index, Solve, a type of puzzle whose ... This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2021, which are unmarked. This post will contain spoilers for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  (fancy terms for the number of changes people made to the website over time ... website that I've been working on a lot since school got cancelled just ... recommend checking out this website. There's all sorts of resources, curricula

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  they're looking for fast but easily distinguish between institutionally ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... together. That process, which has now been ongoing for literally years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles ... , fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your pants-mobile and ... Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... .25 + $.50 for Nick) Erica gives Simon $5.76 Nick gives Simon $5.18 That might ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... hyperenergetic refueling station for the 2009 Mystery Hunt team members as we ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  /01/12/asia/gallery/taal-volcano-eruption/index.html[/caption] volcanic ... for iap. that’s independent activities period, which is exactly what it ... writing problems for our national olympiad and hanging out with friends and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  run pretty fast for a very short distance, or pretty slow for a ... a lot of Discords - for living groups, for clubs, and for all of MIT ... ,[/annotation] and gaming channels for doing [annotation note="i cannot describe how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... become easily automated by AI] is looking for jobs and skills that require ... multimillionaire entrepreneur running her own clothing e-commerce website, Nasty Gal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... became a tradition. Every equation sheet I've ever written for an exam at ... week (I believe it was while planning for CPW last year, and around the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  physical education lottery can be found online at: http://web.mit.edu/athletics/www/physed/index ... entry on PE classes and my previous entry on training for the Boston ... mats that probably haven't been cleaned for years, trying to undo the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  so, I think I speak for us all when I say it was “one of those weeks ... can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  website we've launched today. Our "old" site, which was launched by our ... communications industry. We've been proud, and grateful, to call it our home for ... Admissions website. This isn't an easy task. We are deeply invested in our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  ] suggest that the higher salaries for chief executives can largely be ... history, compensation for executives has risen with the market capitalization of the largest companies. For instance, from 1980 to 2003, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006