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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures ... your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  (clubs). One aspect of University that is often over looked is the fact that ... you have a faint idea of what Diplomacy the board game is like. Meeting ... pay hundreds of dollars to pick up. So I went to the society fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some ... the interview, you should know that Lou Dobbs is a television

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... Skullhouse. As for Junk? Well, most of it is headed for the trash can. I don ... turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... than one adapts. So with that out of the way, I have some actual comp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard ... windows of 5th West: Oh, the holiday spirit. This one may require a bit of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already ... Hi folks, I just learned from the folks who support my.mit.edu that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  -shirts (the technical term is "swag"), and there was plenty of that. This story ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the ... ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that ... So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week ... of being taught by one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  . For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a ... , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... CPW... our preview weekend is nothing like the "Hearst College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was ... 's incredibly refreshing to see that the rest of the office is inspired by it too ... preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart ... working on something that you think is awesome. You and the professor will
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  of campus and the familiar faces that carried me through it, it is time ... kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  of adjacent keys struck while typing, therefore requiring as much separation of the hands as possible b) slow typing speed to prevent and key ... letters on the left of the keyboard, ensuring that right-handed typists

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  classes, and some of you are probably curious about the classes offered at ... .05 (Biochemistry) Contributions of biochemistry toward an understanding of the ... functions of constituents of cells and tissues and the chemical and physical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  available at the rink. Fitness For Life This class is comprised of aerobic ... 's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics ... can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  . The French never ends. (Well, the class is over on the 1st, but then I ... composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  America. At MIT, Dr. Lee said, the focus of science is to teach you to ... . This actually is a disadvantage during the first two years of med school ... , written, and produced by a childhood friend of my dad's. The title is under

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009