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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  apprehensive about joining a lab for the first time. I thought, “Wow, so many ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_get_a_urop. Instead, clueless and confused, I asked for advice from upperclassmen who ... Facts website, 88 percent of the student population will have participated

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  downright dangerous, especially for a woman travelling solo. Luckily I didn ... the name, short for 'help exchange'). If the helper is lucky, they ... was hard for me, because I like to shower after I run every day. Also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  submit a resume to their modeling department. After a short wait, a road ... paragraph: Woo-hoo! That means I won't be going home for the summer, I ... camera into lab for MIT TechTV and while I'd have added music to it, it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  acceptable). CDs will be forwarded on to the music department for evaluation ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this ... need to be an art or media major for this to be considered, and there is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  record for a 9 day adventure of 23.7minutes. I scurried along to submit ... :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come ... waiting for the L train. They were great! 7:56 pm – heard ANOTHER band at

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... quantity. For the purposes of this entry we will apply the concept of LΔ to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  overwhelmed by the barbarians (thank you Dictionary.com for your invaluable sample sentences). Maybe overwhelmed isn’t even the word I’m looking for here. Is there a word for being utterly thrilled, pleasantly surprised

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  went off to distant lands for the summer are finally coming home, and ... orientation (safe travels for the rest of you arriving over the weekend!).  It'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  Rolled - and it was a very different website then. There were no photos, no ... time, and now actually gets taken seriously. And for good reason too ... respect your wishes, even if you ARE a certifiable moron for going with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb ... fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor Day weekend. [SIDEBAR: for those that aren't familiar with the great

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just ... @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new Rainbow Lounge, which was pretty sweet. For much more information about gay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... one criticizes me for them. No one goes up to me and says, well, the ... vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... into some websites and blogs on this very site, I started really liking

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i ... .033 Computer Systems Engineering, had canceled recitations for the day. it would ... online from clover, then went to medical and got tested for covid again. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... for an app, I did practice technical interviews (though I didn't get any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  you either have a date for your visa interview soon or have already had ... different requirements for tests and vaccinations for different countries so check those out for your own country and get vaccinated and tested

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  recordings of ourselves that we submit online for the professor to review ... muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704 Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... the final project (the non-professional version I made for the class

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... Vibrations (8.03): Required for major, will keep. -Special Relativity (8 ... grapes for dinner. Twice. -20th Century Composition Techniques: I stumbled

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009