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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  difficult to solve for. What are they? When is it, that critical point, where ... , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever ... for my number too, I didn’t give it to him. We talked some more, laughed ... , although we’re cautioned against that as children. It’s important not to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  ! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments. Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my ... help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  research pursuits. ICE is unable to offer the most basic answers about how ... answer, unequivocally, is yes. MIT’s strength is its people – no matter ... finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  !', then ran as quickly as it is possible to run while wheeling a suitcase (I ... on. Mumford & Sons is up. It occurs to me as I write this that I ... Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Plains.) Kevin McCarthy is on his way to losing a sixth ballot. It seems ... that it is exciting to see something concrete reinforce a fact we usually ... the places this train must go on its way to California is Reno, NV. As

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday, August 2nd! Snap to it! AND NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED READING ... time to vacation as a family again like this, they decided to make it a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... . Intro to French Culture is like a history class taught in French. It ... wish good luck and tell to try not to worry TOO much because it really

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists 1) that it didn't happen and 2) if it did happen, his intentions were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  carted it all out to the floor lounge, where lots of people gathered to sit ... MIT is hard. Seriously. That's why we have study breaks. I know that sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a ... MIT, I appreciate the most is the diversity. I guess it might be because

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  living tissue, but Khademhosseini’s work is unique in its “ ... found in your body. Khademhosseini is applying his micro-scaffold to grow ... word, it is extraordinary because of the incredibly smart, hardworking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... 6.081 (Introduction to EECS 1). Course 6 will be changing its ... the modifications being introduced. I will try to cover it briefly, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  . Rumor has it that it will be matt pond PA. We'll just have to wait and see about that though. Last fall, Hot Hot Heat came to campus. Last spring ... Sleepwalkers My freshman year, the headlining band was Piebald. They went on to

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are ... that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  low crawling to how to challenge intruders, we had to know it all so ... , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the juniors, seniors, and fifth-years, and is designed to teach the freshmen and

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... list is used to manage the uncertainty of knowing how many students will ... 't somewhere I really thought I wanted to go). Looking back now, it was a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... study that's not even vaguely within your interests? I don't think it is ... 's department learns a given subject.   This is not to say that answers

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice and understand what is important to you. Then, it's time for your ... Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  I was on track to double-major in history; all it takes is one history ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... , writing, is largely useless to humanity, so I want my day job to do some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021