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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  notes from that lecture can be found here, in PDF format. There are lots ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... extremely lucrative for people with a strong technical background) or be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  be MIT-worthy that it might be worth sharing. First, I've always been ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... wrote awesome, popular books, it sounded like a good place to be. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  decisions will be made available online for RA '06, but we are working on it ... 'll be in AP calculus, AP physics, AP biology, AP US government and spanish ... about this, I was wondering whether that letter will be of help as that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  . But then, graduation comes around. You realize that it might be sort of ... carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... be a perfect way to clean out my wardrobe, as well as actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  found myself being pretty well described by [annotation note="this is the ... high school. Just occasionally hearing the name being thrown around or ... interested in MIT freshman year when I got to be on campus during ESP's splash

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  to learning incorrectly to just being a mess overall. I've struggled to ... . Can't might be the wrong word--maybe won't. I struggle a lot with ... paintbrushes since. Another stupid quirk of mine is being unable to talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  MIT quite yet. I think I've definitely gotten better at being an MIT ... . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... teaches you how to be a good leader as well as a good team player. I don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  Hi everyone! It’s good to be back here, on this familiar platform but ... be more involved in some of my former student groups, I intentionally ... video In October, traveled to Shanghai to be at my company’s China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... : Cool. Now we all know integrals. So what? I don’t want to be super ... would be like my time at MIT prepared me for the wrong thing and then when

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any ... like or be more than one thing for most traits. Anyone can, in theory

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... math, and math with computer science. I do pure math, which will be the ... be noticeably harder and more time-consuming than they were in high

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  post) will be as follows: given a list of numbers in random order (say 3 ... comparisons, where k is a small constant (could be 5, 10, 15, etc). The number ... mergesort is. If an algorithm made k * N2 comparisons, it would be slower, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and ... and where I'll be heading off to again sooner or later. The first three ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  silent. This rising junior at MIT wouldn't be happy until she was giving ... that. Deep Fear #2: People won't enjoy my talk. Your talk will be ... be incredibly boring (I think that this would be a crime, considering

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  could potentially be a very over-excited description of what I've done for ... suggests that the year will be even more productive than a year of your ... wrong, but hey, I was pretty stoked to be quoted in an article and have

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  toys, current toys, and even prototypes of toys yet to be released. After ... article. This was the line that struck me: Hasbro will be showing off the ... . The show is claimed by the promoters to be the largest toy trade show in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  have their neighbors be eaten by countries, have entries dedicated to ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being ... this manner - genuine being the key word. If you do, it'll hopefully show

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  , the sophomore fall! *** Uh so yeah I'm gonna be a sophomore, and just ... enough (I planned it), this happens to be the first day of classes on ... is having! This will be nothing too crazy, but it is for sure something

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  fluctuate. Some of us will be running CPW events on-campus, and most of us are going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... be ignored and possibly removed."](within reason).[/annotation] It can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  staff will be observing Pi Day 2025 — which, NASA tells me, is also a ... . JOHN: We’re both heading over there in a few minutes. Gonna be dope. A ... ? (looks at Frank) Didn't that one girl say there's going to be a guest

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025