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• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  Hello all! I've been a horrible blogger, please forgive, but I have amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal ... made, right? And it's a perfectly understandable attitude. Many of you have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... , Executive Director of the Education Conservancy. Lloyd Thacker leads a panel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two-year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  wouldn’t really count this as a conversation, but it certainly is small ... education, to which there are a few common responses: 1) Not following up ... small talk mode. We don’t have to have a deep conversation about math, but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... a little over two semesters left in this school, I wonder what impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an ... . And both times, it was wonderful. Two (very long) years apart, after a ... semester. Made art: over the summer, my internship held a poster

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  -the-game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... ,[/annotation] winning a modest but appreciated $15! In my opinion, winning required more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours ... came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps ... , over, say, four months, then you have a lot of updates to do. And if you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  . But actually, to our surprise, having a “plan” and a “major” and a ... animation classes. BUT *excited inhale to prepare for a long run-on sentence ... want to cross-register and begin the process just a few days before

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... 're going to become a Pokemon trainer -- you'll be catching them on your iPhone. Oh yeah -- that's right, the iPhone just came out a few months ago for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll ... a sack of jelly and push him around or pick him up or throw him or do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician from my class, who is a double biological engineering (20) and music (21M ... has music been a passion for you? Tell us about your musical journey

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  a generally useless, chronological order. When you ask for a map ... 've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It ... train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright ... quote I used in my personal blog was "One of my favorite items is a ... discourages filesharing." So the Olympics just finished up. I didn't get a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  's different, but there are a few key reasons that most affect me. 1) Campus == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a little background. Actually, there's quite a bit of background. Back In The

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008