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• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  decisions will be out this weekend. The Countdown to Burnout is ticking down ... without fail. Maybe they just have longer pendulums. For the first time ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Transfer with Professor Patera) (note: it is in fact "prandtl" without the ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on ... , but what they grow to be” "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  will be sent via postal mail. We will not be releasing decisions on the web, on email, or over the phone. The date of the mailing will be ... working on each decision: which students will be admitted, which will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  be solved," which immediately peaked my interest. This was the kind of ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  classes at MIT where the final project doesn’t have to work to be considered ... will ultimately try those same experiments and obtain the same results ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  and/or national fairs. Ultimately, the top ~1,700 students will qualify ... can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ... roaring and happily shocked students never fails to make me smile. The 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A ... . Acquaintances that I had gotten used to being around, but no longer see on the ... be considering your application.” “The applicant pool was extremely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  communicate as the change agents that we all will be, but also to discuss ... Kanjun, Noam, and I would be the speakers at the inaugural TIMtalks on May ... be a great event and that she was already so amazed with how the event

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  love the seattle summer, with every sunset being a thousand shades of ... there. being in new york city for a week before school was a slap in the face after being in the west coast, but it grounded me, and i realized

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  things at a later time. On the other hand, I could be totally making that ... the mail. After an awesome day at work (the exclusive camp we were going to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  of you waiting for the BE major, it looks like it will be approved at ... will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering ... Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering to be awarded on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  be on the river at 6AM for crew. That said, serendipity reigned: the ... .']recruited to be a coxswain of the crew team.[/annotation] I figured out pretty ... back in 1949: “We believe that the mission of the Institute should be to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  expectations.  The pie was good. I expect pie to be good, therefore the cherry ... everything.  The college decision, for example, should be about much more than ... a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  was supposed to be, and the place I was supposed to be most was here ... progress in the way I should be. I feel like all the people around me have ... the other MEngs seem to be as well. Maybe the answer is just that I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  coursework will likely build upon, befriend some of the most interesting people ... would be running away from all the things that had made my hometown such ... win. But as the people I’d be sharing a floor with for the next seven

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... representation theory part still eludes me the most. I feel like I will need to ... helpful. Zimi Z. '25 and I would be asking the stupidest of questions and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  . However, following the release of admissions decisions, we will be mailing ... says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday ... .   In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the 13th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  resources and mentorship. i know that will never be the case, so i try my best ... , and i agree that they seem to be doing fine. but the question i would ... with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you ... ? Maybe cross off some of the engineering majors. Some majors may be too ... will only make you miserable and insecure. You won't enjoy the course

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  corner during which it will be back to the hard grind of work, work, and ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I ... going to be in Southern California, I narrowed the list down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015