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• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  performances, or to write lyrics that use Boo as a pronoun.) Do not use words ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never ... giggles. Do not quote Holden Caufield in your essay. (It's a good way to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  much of each they need to take? No, you just need 270 units total outside ... temporary room. Don't unpack. (A good strategy is to pack a suitcase with a ... . You can't get all the information you need from a video -- you can get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  ago. i'm going to have to deal with it for a few months. the internet ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... all the ways i want to improve myself as a person - but realizing i don

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  this semester? that's a billion more than you need to take, and you don ... , these shadows. shadows you created because you refuse to shine a light on ... it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my setup. (You might want to max out the quality if you really need to see

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the ... other writers/editors, a lot of the discussion boiled down to: what are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool ... to using heavy machinery, there was a lot of "station work" where ... table, etc. For much of the two weeks, the lab looked a lot like this

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... added, "MIT also encourages us to think about the future as much as the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  something new; every second of the day a slot I needed to fill; I wanted to ... to more lectures, or recitations. Then a student group gives an ... in the lounge, or working on a pset, or walking to Hayden to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  admissions actually works. You know, I need to know what they're telling you ... discuss a broad, general aspect of admissions that is relevant to each ... schools, but make sure you like ALL OF THEM. You don't want to get into a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear ... . decisions...I am not able to believe that a nobel prize man like prof ... , "Is it possible for a junior to be admitted to both MIT & RSI

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Convention. I donated  $20 and didn't think much of it. Fast forward to last ... . It was a journey, but it taught me to be very resourceful. My next goal is to type one up entirely from a Mac at an Apple store.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition ... seven floors. It's home to a GIS lab, as well as the resources of courses ... past 1989, but Harvard does. It was time for a picture. MIT has great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  , John (a Course 20 professor) and Ellen, convinced me to stay. I gave ... MIT very much did not teach me how to do, but are skills I am glad to ... early 2014, a staff member, comparing MIT to smaller liberal arts colleges

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial ... required sections, however, it quickly turned to panic. What started out as a ... greens across the board and a much nicer car than the one we arrived with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . Instead, someone turned to me and said, “did you know, you have a lovely ... heritage and apparently having a face that looks kind of funny, to the extent ... relentlessness, a relentlessness to give into that same indifference, an inability

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  lectures in the first week and then we're broken up into groups to create a ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... when semester classes aren't in session, and I agree. IAP is a much more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  best time for me to go on a Birthright trip, because you need to have ... out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being ... 't remember talking to anyone who wasn't at least a little surprised at the ... ="though some are predicting it may be closer to a depression

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  energy into their cavity on their way through, corresponding to a specific ... every day does the chance come along to post a shoutout from a blacked ... from other talks. It's a nice way to learn about miscellaneous topics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012