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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible ... team was named Smallish Momenta (an anagram of "Simmons Hall Team") and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring ... -Hazen who got a 35 on her ACT but was afraid of applying to a school so far ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  day rolls over, by Random Hall Standard Time. Destiny, the southern half of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.   It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... , basically I applied to a bunch of grants around MIT so that I could work on ... HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  , and now the only things out-of-place on hall are the piles of dirty ... a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  and offer me a cup of coffee, which I'd always accept with great ... of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  ’t take into account the full range of aid that we offer, since they are ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th ... by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  15.27182 – Lecture Anatomy 101 Prereq: None, Units: 1-0-1, Lecture: M EVE (11 PM-midnight) (iHouse), NO FINAL

  

  Analysis of Lecture Seating. Offered Fall term only. Happy Thanksgiving ... Practical introduction to the theory of lecture seating. Revolves mainly around the Oasis Model of Lecture Seating, along with practical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 23, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most ... and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  "apply" section, which offers a related blog of encouragement from The ... , these web mockups offer a rare example of work I’ve made intentionally ... Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  window AC unit like mine. None of the residential dining halls are open ... at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... computer, start watching an episode from the fifth season of Scrubs. Decide

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  Conference I attended last Saturday as part of Women's Week Here are ... lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005