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• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but ... at the beginning of July. They gave me an estimated repair time of two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  here. First-years, keep up the good work! Your enthusiasm in spite of ... -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... 've ever been to a physical therapist, you know the kind of discomfort I mean: the breaking apart of old adhesions that hurts even as it gives you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the ... people walked out of the front doors that night as he approached the building, holding nylon bags that sagged under the pressure of salad plates

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy ... information can be found on the UROP Guidelines website. For a list of ... held by the Library of Congress, (b) explore issues of copyright

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  't spend too much time in any one place. This one's a broader version of the ... . MITERS has spawned a number of cool things, the most famous of which I ... parties start up. It's in the butt-end of the MIT Museum building, kind-of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  good idea. You know, one of these things: What I forgot was that the ... ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The ... out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  original piece of work recognized by experts in the field as significant and ... . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For ... lead to the advancement of quantum computing, which could aid scientists

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... kind of unorthodox. Back during the application season, I was pretty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben's post regarding the official release date of ... talking about what to blog about.) Also, nobody likes the suspense of big ... . Think up really horrible names for this sequel list. (Return of the Blog

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was ... , academic programs, extracurricular options, diversity of the student body ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don ... much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing ... fully realized how dominated the city is by MIT until a large fraction of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... the sense of different materials—I most often used one that was hard and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... of documents right now, so there's a good chance we have received ... be understanding of your circumstances. The Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our ... I was an hour early. I'm good to go. In the meantime, I'm chilling

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I ... a talk from Steve Huffman, one of the founders of Reddit, and from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  class (the lecturers are especially good Spring semester). Manage to stay ... Decide to skip molecular bio (7.28) recitation. Tempted by the prospect of ... . 6pm - about 10pm Finish up things for the day at lab. On good days

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards the end of the panel, I introduced myself and asked them what they felt ... startups would have to overcome. Some of the things I learned: Fintech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... didn’t feel like I would dislike the content of 2.001 that much. I wouldn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  döner, so I hoped the large Turkish population of Germany would be as good ... 's just one more thing I just thought of yesterday: laundry. Where are the ... doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006