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• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  /17, we should know this. Please fill out this form, so we can add a note to ... processed all materials. It may take us up to two more weeks for your ... cover sheet with their letter. We prefer to receive it, but letters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  know and can announce it, we'll post it here on the blogs. ... Answers to some more of the common questions ... aid decision will be mailed as soon as possible after it is complete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  National Flower. What people could use more of is netting, to catch fish with and to put over beds to keep malaria-carrying mosquitoes off. Can we use ... design so that the ambulances can also be used to carry vegetables to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  acceptable so I'll try to keep it to a minimum. Feel free to use your ... anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception ... just now realized that what can start as a simple guess as to an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  can see what remains of the branch the swing used to hang happily from ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... deserve it.) Of course, with independence comes responsibility. According

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in ... 7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  yourself and try not to let the stress eat you alive as it can tend to do ... I realized that I had to schedule an interview. It takes me a bit of ... -deprecating since before it was cool). Looking back, that’s kind of a bad attitude to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , we are taking 6.910 Independent Study in EECS!  We really wanted to ... , which made the process more complicated/drawn out than it had to be. So yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure ... , somewhat neurodiverse, and very non-scary; we used to be dominated by math ... ="Try to ignore the flaming blender in the corner... he'll be fine, it's not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get there?” According to Google, 15 minutes by foot. “There’s no way we can ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  is tuned to the right frequency, it can make the wine glass really sing ... research immediately become apparent. It may be possible to use packing ... compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... Wow; it’s already 2010. Anyways, Monday 1/4/10 marks the beginning of IAP 2010. For those unfamiliar with IAP (Independent Activities

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  -non-MIT-people-a-lot so that when YOU are asked all these things, you can just link them to ... inconvenient and it takes a while to memorize. However, it really, really isn ... were able to ask and people would explain. I really think it's more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  which he uses legitimate, scientific tools and data to guess at impossible ... event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a ... ’t mean that we can’t apply it in absurd, hilarious, or even impossible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during ... , and it occurred to me that this was a very legitimate scientific project ... combined - and it was an awesome change of pace to be reading and writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i can't do it all. Here I used the ... . A classmate took me to the clinic after lunch. It was closed, but we ... possible. It took a minute to turn around. I went to the restroom and sat on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  post!). But as always, everything at MIT seems to runs on its own ... that matter to you, that you can talk about at length with a recruiter at the fair or during an interview. The way I like to think of it is, if a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... my blog job), and cheerleading, it is rarely possible for me to have four free hours each weekday -- although it can be possible, so long as I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  asleep in the stairwell next to it. If you count the people about to head ... from most of my classes. It is an especially nice place to work and feels ... part of Stata, I quickly realized I probably wasn’t supposed to be there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in ... fulfilling.    shit. it’s been 28 minutes. i should choose a topic quickly ... i’d expected it to be. god, it’s so hard to think about how my home is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019