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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  (for example, “end call” or “go to another page”) for every point in the ... . It has to be an idea you really like. Drew: Start early, and get a ... This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... 'd advise you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 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 ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience ... life!! No -- stop, this doesn't mean you get to quit school since you're

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... thing you can think about in your mind without worrying about getting ... happened to be in the audience and offered her a job. She joined Digital in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... a Thursday morning in 2007 seems to be a juicy, cooked-to ... Beef is supposed to have a meeting soon. **Just kidding. No, really. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  . *It`s worth taking a moment here to state that while I moved in the ... hospital ER in a matter of hours and had amazing care. **Short anecdote ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  a project to visualize our Netflix viewing data. Expect to see it in a ... track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA ... to do that for the sole purpose of getting swole enough to do a kip up

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... can get to Kendall Square by taking the Tech Shuttle, but in case you ... (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your ... —  could use a bit more time to get everything together for their college ... I have stated this in this short blog post, but there is a lot going

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  't get- OH MY [edited for content]." Yours truly somehow managed to receive ... , you need to get some Kerberos tickets. (Kerberos is a security protocol ... your identity to the MIT computers. For whatever reason, SecureFX is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  it is, in short: Nothing to do on a Wednesday night? Call Shane, go out ... to make your decision (in favor of MIT). Also, I've added some new ... MIT was, I knew that I was supposed to get a scholarship, go there, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  be in a place that enables us to pioneer the next novelty, but amidst this culture, you can easily lose your grounding. In short, how we treat ... in a lifetime? — and you’re left with something permanent, a lasting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  is to say, if you’re a curious person with an open mind, you can ... me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International ... get to eat dinner with former MIT students who now work at companies where you want to work SWE (Society of Women Engineers) Banquet -- you get

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  who I could get in touch with to make this happen. He had no information ... pulsar research. In my case, there were four major fears to get over - and ... ) additional information in case people ask you questions. If you're using a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that I'm not ready to be leaving home; goodness, I've had two and a half ... , getting my favorite takeout food. Driving to the airport this morning (a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  dress and sandals (in contrast to my usual comfy T-shirt and shorts ... moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... hilarious people. As Exhibit A of this theory, I'd like to present you with ... I wait a million years I'm not going to have very much junk." "This

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in ... encourage your child to attend CPW, to see if MIT is actually a good fit for ... relevant to life at MIT in 2005 than talking to pre-1970 alums. And if you're

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005