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• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  have to work for it. Despite that, I didn't expect to struggle this much ... understand. I needed foundation. I made the ultimate decision to switch into 8 ... it so much that I begin to believe it. Or maybe I wasn't even joking in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  admissions process. You don’t need to look for information anywhere else ... everything you want and need. I just created a new MyMIT account to check out ... , create one!), and I can now relate much better to your anxiety. This &ldquo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and ... Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  used to create cylindrical parts, for example a pin that needs a groove ... In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  when you just need to pick up a carton of milk or orange juice and don ... The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend ... the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  for everyone's sanity to be able to get off campus once in awhile). When ... offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Frank Sinatra in New York, New York: these vagabond shoes were longing to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  . When humans are hungry, they need food in order to get back to being in ... quickly turned out to be much more complicated than I thought. Here’s some ... ! The State Logic What we need is to identify all the possible states for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... , whereas if I wanted to make something nice, I'd need to tediously plan it ... foreign. I was the kind of person that needed to dwell on something before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... you just as much as any lecture will, and I really use this time to get ... -seen-on-tv product that actually performs like it does on TV. I learn at least two to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... cousin, and my best friend all made it in, so it was my turn to follow suit

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  composer, and once I went to a Boston Pops concert and this girl who was in ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... nice personal touch / warm fuzzy feeling to the seemingly heartless

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  learn how to make these. MIT does not offer classes that teach background ... have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite common belief ... ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  advisor. Much idyllic, such hipster, wow. To play to stereotype, I even ... transfer to my most recent laptop and could only be found in my old Hotmail ... ’t need to go overboard to be accepted here.) I did know what I wanted out

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Does the transcript submitted on my QuestBridge application count as official?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part.
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... train says that it's "Express to Davis," which wouldn't make too much ... 't make too much sense for an express train to go there instead of Alewife

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled ... -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... spiral notebook. My 5.13 TA apparently does this whole atomic role

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  ’t need to prove anything to me, I always want to reply but don’t. Because ... felt the unprompted need to prove his lack of yellow fever; this burden ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school ... way I want to change the world!) :D But first I need to a Master ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  something to the effect (although much more nicely put) that undergrads don ... around the lab for a year or more, because it does take a long time to ... undergrads once, so they have a pretty strong commitment to training the next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006