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• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  want to get them out of the way.  Probably I will take 2.671 later, not ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... peers. However, I keep trying to define where and how I learn the best

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get ... activity. He said: "No. If you want to do it, do it on your own." Over the ... -step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  am), so I took some quick time to film and explore the lounge ... by how hot it was. [annotation note="a humidifier is a must in macg"]The ... organized by the evening. Felt pretty satisfying to finish, so good vibes were

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  floor also jammed to it on my last night at MIT Do You Realize?? by The ... stafe, make the most of your quarantine, and don't forget to always sing ... music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you're ... like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think ... Yo-Yo Ma when he came to Boston in an outing organized by the Burchard

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  you feel from your classmates or your family. The support you get from your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best ... college application. Your worst moment in the application process. Your best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  catfished by a hotel online only to discover you may not survive the night) before heading over to Level99. Level99 was created/founded/birthed by the ... to nap between classes, NONE OF IT. This is the part of the story

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  . The best rule of thumb is to go with what really interests you, because ... must win to get into MIT, like there is no set course of actions that ... with your SAT scores is anything above a 700 in each category (the same

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO ... , we aren't going to satisfy the 10^18 Joules per year that the US needs ... Chemical Engineering II professor, Dr. Gregory "take your hands off the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . So the story that follows is about my first visit to the Massachusetts ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan ... made its way down the hall. The group quickly became a meandering blob

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  won't teach you as much about the SATs, it's a good way to get you ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first ... , and it IS pass/no record. This way it also works out so I get finished

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... programming, and linear algebra! The class is taught by Professor Eran Egozy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  to the application fee, choose the fee waiver option. There is no need ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  lesson to take away from this is, well, I’m okay. Here’s a list of the ways ... : N/A   Ok. Now let’s get to the juicy stuff.   21W.755 ... , dropping my A to a C. The sad part is that I still cared, even though it was

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  exam. By noon, I was bored with the GRE practice exam, and decided to use ... Milliseconds of 35 MIllisecond Pulsars How to Finish Your HASS Requirement in 50 ... Theory, or How I Learned to Stop Losing and Love Math -The Cities of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  want to get a UROP for the spring? Should I take another technical class ... -country-bread. Anyway, the takeaway here is that IAP is a great time to try new things and ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  what has happened or is on the schedule to happen today. My day started ... and talk about things, and how to cope with the pressure that is MIT ... would have the most common allergy, an allergy to Nickel, which is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is choose the best students we can without regard to how much money they will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet ... what kubernetes is for a moment to walk to the desk of [annotation note ... phone to see the message, "Lunch is running late." i decide to play beat

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  impossible not to notice the tremendous amount of resources that MIT is pouring ... , takes the principles of D-Lab: Design to a real-world level by showing you ... semester to delve into how grand the problem of poverty is and the kinds of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008