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• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... because it allows me to view the student in a more appropriate context that ... tell us how you will do? To get a more balanced view we ask you to also

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  a page from the book of NELLY! Because it is getting HOT in HERE!" We ... !"). However, another group gets to explore the heating of Subway sandwiches in ... school's production, remember. I will get to posting integral answers soon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  materials works in the same way. We encourage you to have your school use ... form and we will be sure to get the interview report. If your EC has not gotten back to you, but it has been only a short time since you made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  you give yourself the opportunity to change your mind, and be led in a ... yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... your time in college more as a work of art than as a focused linear

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  whooped in rounds by some pretentious kid in a suit, I didn’t want to ever ... on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... post on a happy note, in actuality, the relief of spring break only

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  sure they were sent in early December. Do I need to get them sent again? I hope not because this is a real problem for me, getting them in the ... want to enroll in a US school towards a diploma (we not not require a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  take a short break to watch American Idol. Sometimes, one person ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... -nighters six out of seven nights a week. Here's what I say to that; yes, MIT is

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  take everything in. Just amazing. And after a short trip to the Pantheon ... going to get unless you took 15.655: Power and Negotiation in MIT's world ... ended up living in a mansion in Arizona married to Lukas Podolski, but my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  to do, like read a section in another hand out or show something to the ... This will be short, because I'm about to start another 2 ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... to CS Programming in Python: I’m awful at programming under a time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  . She would like you to know that ants have a designated graveyard area in ... foundation on which to build better bad ideas. But there is always a lot going on in admissions, and we never set aside the time, or the money, to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... shooting: But of course, being a hipster in denial, if there's two ways to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the ... of Framingham, Massachusetts. And get this: we came in third place ... went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... - it's all getting done, in short but furious bursts of work. If you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  the iceberg...to get a head start on your plans check out our improved ... and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the ... at Student Financial Services so you can stop in and get your questions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  need to find a way to understand. Freshman Taylor did not get this at ... to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... , “What can I do today to get just a little better today than I was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018