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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  and get letters of recommendation. (By the way…I’m writing this on the ... You don’t need me to tell you that the college application process is ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my ... by subjects like chemistry and biology, so I was pleased to see the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  to be less busy. anyway, the point is that having [annotation note ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  : walking through the infinite on my way to class, studying in Hayden library ... normal.   In a lot of ways, though, this is all very weird. The last ... time soon. I have no answers. No choice but to move on, though. The best

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  . Aside from the cabrito, I didn't really get a chance to have some ... all the way down from Laredo (about 3 hours away) to attend. I got to ... out to my meetings for the day. I get excited that this hotel actually

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned ... reality, it's to maintain some sort of relevance, to get the comments and ... constantly provide good content to get the serotonin hits we all need. Another

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... trying to take (but know I could never get into due to its popularity) is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  language eroded some more, so that by the time you get to, say, Spanish ... 'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word ... a subconscious level. The trick is this- we use "going to" as an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England ... -MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME is MIT's flagship junior year abroad program, allowing MIT students to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  Osprey has one of the best lifetime guarantees I’d ever seen, I used to ... mechanical engineer. The mouse is for when I need to CAD, the ruler is for ... ;   This is the pocket where things go when I bother to organize my backpack

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to the application fee, choose the fee waiver option. There is no need ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  discipline on yourself is the only way to really get anything done. Some days I ... , to get a jumpstart on the curriculum, to finally fix their less ... Banana Lounge with my fellow 18.02 students only to get caught at the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  quickly. The other thing I've gotten used to is living alone. Up until the ... One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  drawing and tell the machine exactly how to make your part by defining the tool paths. Then, open your file on the computer connected to CNC mill or ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  competition stems from the fact that "katsu"　(カツ） is a homophone for "to ... にぎり、nigiri - the kind that you're used to with a rectangular blob of rice and a piece ... know that the ginger next to the sushi is called "gari" in Japanese and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... , perfectionism bad." The thing is, perfectionism is not the only path to success

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  Interview It's a long one, but a good one. Ben: Many Ways to Define the Best ... finding the information you're looking for is like searching for magnetic ... means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... understood by the staff and other midshipmen that sometimes the best leadership ... best of both worlds: I have the endless opportunities provided by the MIT

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

   rice with forks? How are you going to scoop it into your mouth? The default of ... reusable set of utensils everywhere. The concept of layers is foreign to me ... cards. And even of the places that do, often, getting a card to work takes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  , we send our best to everyone impacted by this situation. Our thoughts ... with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy to work with ... access to the Internet, to your computer and files, and your home over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007