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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  will be doing some guest blogging for The Nance Effect. There, that ... hackers... I am more excited than usual because I will be a freshman ... MIT career. I am pleased to announce that Ms. Tamy-Fee Meneide has

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail. Empirical examples to ... , rather than the full text. Beyond that, it can be tricky to recognize what ... of how to live a meaningful life. Considers the meaning of life, not as

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from ... lecture does not escape me. 3-5 PM - 8.02. The concepts related to ... appears to be banging its head into its textbook in despair!"), but the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  why it’s important to ask for help when you need it. Today is not the ... awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... to be much more productive than just panicking. I’m not gonna lie

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  attention to the Class of 2010, and the new SAT (and ACT and TOEFL) will be an ... will be used to admit them?" Your entire application from the previous ... . When we go to the waitlist, staff will be asked for their input, and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that ... would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when you ask us about these things. This is really not the best way to ... the odds against them, and that's really not acceptable. I want to see ... something like this, I'm not the only one who has to deal with the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  , to be clear, is a vanity metric and not indicative of much, but it ... might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  to say that. It's true! But upon further inspection this evening, the fine print on this offer reads "Students will be responsible for travel and lodging fees." which makes it about 12% as cool as it would be if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  want to be a real leader in the world my generation will soon inherit ... neglect to account for the other nations which will undoubtedly take the ... projects like the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline System, it will be surveyed several

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  week - I'll be posting one about the events East Campus will be hosting ... cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  sides of the spectrum, and I can handle it, so why not? It is perhaps true ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... be certain whether the emotions you are trying to convey are felt on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  , and you are going to be visiting Cambridge sometime this fall, let the ... why you like to do these activities. What is it about them? The people, the subject, the process, etc. Remember that the alums will not have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... applicant)! I should start by saying that we are NOT trying to trick you or be ... . You're all welcome! In your specific case, you will have to be

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  complicated, less certain, riskier. i think that probably this will have to be ... a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... decided that was fine; i liked cooking for myself too much to risk being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  ) will be mailed their packages at the same time. We're busily working ... budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world ... circumstances," Hockfield said. Tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  transferring to one of the state schools that had admitted me the first time ... have gotten it if I wasn't willing to take the shot, and already learned ... to MIT, you will almost certainly be able to study at a college that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  the way to the east of campus (not as far as it would be if I lived on ... , so I will definitely be dropping by in the future to replenish my ... can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  meant that I will not be able to match their level of mastery of the ... the "college experience". In order to be fun at parties. I always hated ... the years to come. Because, like it or not, confidence matters

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to ... the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017