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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  the freight industry. It's all new to me, coming from the passenger side of things. I suppose the best part is that it's all making sense so far ... context to lend. The hardest part about this work is getting up around 7AM

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  and the Spiritual/Right Now section. The final exam is there to provide ... ; It's felt quite anti-climatic to be done, a feeling that seems to ... least for me, it's hard to completely relax and resume to normalcy after

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education. You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  spring to celebrate Drop Date. Burton 3rd...is Burton 3rd, in all its glory ... opportunity to elaborate a little on what she said, because it's an interesting ... looks, in the words of my little sister, "like it's going to walk across

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... about when it came to Camp Kesem. At that time, I responded that I wasn ... -up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  Institute's capacity for innovation.  MIT SHASS is home to research that has a global impact, and to superb graduate programs, all recognized as ... School's portfolio is vast, including: anthropology; comparative media
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  . Best of all, the rink is open to all students nearly every day. It ... . This is a popular space for student organizations to advertise events ... heritage with the VSA – it's great to have a place where I can eat familiar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  ethnic minority in Vietnam. It is beautiful, and there is clean air, a ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  others. In Ramanan's case, the Red Cross is honoring one of its own. She ... to make a dance/drama. The dance can depict epics. It's the first form ... dance was such that she wanted to share it with others. "There are people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... construction and event planning. It is used for such things as the base of a sign ... lines from afar. It's essentially the public-transit equivalent to air

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  having made it better than when I arrived. Something I'd like to do is to ... contributing to patriarchal, oft Western beauty standards, and is it really that ... standards? Also, why does it take me an hour to do winged eyeliner? Worry

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  'd already taken. I considered pushing it to the last six weeks of senior ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... wronged me. I took it freshman fall on Pass/No Record, and I passed. The

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... , pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This semester more than most ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  stories to its death onto an equally bulky 400lb grand piano waiting on the ... called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy ... “This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later!” I told my family as they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it ... to me, it's not about acting. Fundamentally, it's about being ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012