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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  the first day of GEL. The Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is designed to help the next generation of engineers (like me!) build leadership ... the past (courtesy of high school marching band) is the fact that you

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... me offhand her impressions of the graduate student culture in her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most ... , allow you to avoid the negative sides of GIRs and go through your whole ... offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements. Terrascope is a bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... my life. I'm kind of like a less creepy version of the subservient ... bridges going across the river but none of them seemed to have sidewalks for

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  in the midst of a busy time in the semester? What does it say to the ... the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising ... , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most ... . And if it does? All the better. These days, there’s plenty of room for ... A: the sweet flyer that lured me into taking one of my current classes

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  decorations are a staple of any good commencement. A week or so before the ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... slow or quicken the progression of time. So here we are, four years from

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with ... academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on ... out that pset". So I emailed some of the new friends I was making and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  thinking about the results of the tests; I was just concerned with relaxing ... . However, many people had fraternity retreats -- I think many of the ... fraternity would not be a good fit for me.) Anyway, with all the fraternities

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  people are pretty good at this. The authors graphed the number of problems ... of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math ... reason about them. So I thought I’d take the opportunity of doing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... day sitting at a desk. So what does a day in the life of a physicist ... . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... 't too hard for most MIT students.  Your standard class does a good job of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  make a good blog entry.” Life at MIT does not make sense a lot of times ... you know what I mean when I say that I was kind of like the walking dead when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  NOT AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL The Last of Us [caption id="" align ... widely considered to be one of the best games of all time, for good fucking ... . The trope of 'gruff man warms to child' really does it for me (@God of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  cons of the symbol, and improve on it throughout 3 iterations. I chose ... 's too blocky and looks kind of outdated. The rigidity and homogeneity of the logo don't represent the diverse interests and hobbies of the people

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• 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 / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... that takes up a topic covered under the thematic of games & culture ... on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you

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

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  , nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I ... and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from ... how good you think you are at taking care of yourself, so it's nice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008