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• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  competition, "Cry if you win because you're happy, but don't cry if you lose because you're sad." [paraphrase] I think that has some relevance here. The ... opportunity if you're admitted, but I hope that people will be okay if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  , and every semester that you’re registered for a class, you have to pay ... or a Research Assistant for a lab, the job will not only pay your ... to complete six classes and write your thesis. I was able to get three

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  mental health problems? is your BMI over 25? have you ever smoked?), you ... said. "i think it should be on your chart? maybe you just can't see it ... -diagnosing depression this WHOLE TIME, and you're telling me i've actually been going to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... you're probably doing fine then? cj: not as if you'd know how to make it ... about the same. normally, one of your cards matches one of the opponent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... you're reading right now, which redesign we undertook in 2010. We ... your help: I've often said that MIT's identification as a research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  UROP, and she replied with a chuckle, "I see your handwriting hasn ... many hours per week are accounted for by your classes and ... lounge with other people instead of in your room by yourself, or take some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  your eye through a telescope. Professional radio astronomy - my kind of astronomy - never involves sticking your eye through a telescope; your eyes ... why YOUR project is important. You describe exactly how much time you

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

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... attend, your next mailing ("The Next Big Mailing") has all of the awesome information you need to get you started, including instructions to set up your e

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  intelligent. So, for example, as you drive home from work, your car should send a wireless signal to your house and tell it to turn the heat back on ... mouse are very NOT intuitive. Computers should be able to recognize your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing homework entirely. Just, you know, chill. When you think about it, you're way

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  last-minute answers. It's fashionable here to loudly announce your ... . "How about you take his 16.05 exam and he can take your 2.005 one?" "Okay ... some people attack a marathon. It hurts so much while you're in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  impressed that you know what its called or think you're just trying to show ... cuts off the circulation to your arm. By the end of the day, we all had ... , of waverip.com and tecker.com I was curious as to what was up with your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  comments and questions! Please continue to do so...or, if you're lurking, don ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your own code, circuitry, whatever, up...you're turning in your lab as an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  really cool, you're absolutely right! If you think that makes me really ... scores, "the match" is important, they want to see your passions, etc etc ... teacher's aide in an elementary school. If one or more of your parents is an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or ... 't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  modern industry standards. redesign every lecture you’re assigned, adding ... your back and arms as you waddle through the infinite, but then ... and care involved in delivering every bite of food to your doorstep

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... about some of those rejections, especially if they were from your dream ... write an essay about how you dealt with a significant challenge for your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  positions that could be in your major at MIT or elsewhere--the military has ... more job specific training. And, of course, you’re allowed to stay in ... for Field Training, and junior and senior year it’s practicing your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  ’t hurt you. You still need to separately take care of yourself, your social life, and your physical health apart from your passions--which is what I ... about. Groups where your obligation is not a grade, but your commitment to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  ("Learning your first coding language can be really hard. By your second language, it gets slightly easier. Your third language? Okay now it's easy. Your ... ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015