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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  'll learn even more. So it's always a good thing to push yourself academically ... Standing Exam (ASE) to test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support ... plate and applied his physics knowledge to explain why latke is a “ ... it was better to have a delicacy-filled hamentashen than something that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Security Strategy, assess how well the United States is adhering to its own ... going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  knew I had to blog it (if for no other reason but to poitn people here ... Bush chose me," she says. "It is an incredible honor. We were all very ... I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be ... is very extensive and would not fit here, so check it out.) Events of ... 's difficult to make this blog entry colorful, but I want to post it to convey

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Recommendation forms are available on your MyMIT portal. It is okay if your teacher ... prefer to receive it, but letters without it are at no disadvantage. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  information was/is. Anyway, back to the We Are MIT event. Overall, I think it ... amount of people have told me is really helpful, and I plan on turning it ... 'm hoping to get it published so we can have cute little coping with anxiety

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  year” to attend. The Alloy Orchestra, based here in Cambridge, is ... create the soundtrack. The film is a precursor to almost every sci-fi movie ... in terms of set design and special effects is remarkable! Typical to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible ... financial aid deadline is quickly approaching. Be sure to have all of your ... application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... to cut out any part of it. Feel free to just look at the pictures. So ... ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  had something to add to it: Most people will tell you that MIT has an ... campus is mostly the opposite of pretty. But it is an ugliness that I like ... concrete and machinery, and for me, the ugliness is almost mystical. Like it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... three different IAPs in three different countries. I think it'll have to ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... the semester sundae. As is, it's the pits. Pun intended, as always ... Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I ... , there's not to fit through there, and it's a bit.....steep. The nice part though was that though it was about 10F degrees outside, it warmed up to a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... MIT uploads pictures from Phase II. It is literally mind-blowing to think that ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  so close to each other that I often forget which is which. A perfect ... Center is a familiar place to all who study language at MIT. Right outside the LLARC there's a lounge, which is obviously cool because it has laser

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first ... /engineering is 60% humanities and 40% science/engineering. Typically it is about 8 ... . This is because when I write my major on my resumé (and how I write it on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  eerie it is to have gone from being underclassmen to the oldest people at ... them. it makes me feel old. i wonder what it'll take for me to feel like ... to have that they're right. it's an endless cycle. i just want to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022