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• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  stocks up and hibernates when the weather goes a degree below 60F, so I don ... state, to skirt the emotional fatigue and the crushing helplessness that ... long day❤️ (I am not, in fact, being paid to advertise, but maybe I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  announced year-long disruptions to SAT administration and recommended that ... to COVID-19. As stated in our Making Caring Common pledge — and ... under such strain that they cannot perform to a degree commensurate with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  concept of public housing in the United States. (I have finally found the ... 's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in ... long lines and waits are good! The hardest part is waking up before 5

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  the United States in the international olympiads. There are 5 major ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math ... long academic journey, Lander ended up in biology/genetics, was the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Beach (another migration—my family lives in Pennsylvania). “Happy Monday ... episode is 15 minutes long and focuses on some aspect of making up stories ... -generation Kindle from a very long time ago and therefore awesome. Cory took Small

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  thousands of applications you recieve it must be a very long process." Ah, a ... , physics or astronomy at your university?" Unlike many countries' universities, MIT (and most private US universities) does not have minimum scores

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  makes the difference between me getting my degree here as opposed to from ... process get them to learn about me (action and reaction). My degree would ... polarization. You’d be surprised what a long way such small incidences go, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  diploma, but it might be a good idea). You cannot enroll in a degree program ... general idea." Some public universities do have exact percentages of what ... express mail your application as long as you send it by the deadline. Edward

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  persisted for so long, and so universally. As if our bodies themselves ... . Not fake, just flat. Like I've been talking to cardboard cutouts and ... . But maybe this is longing, or maybe desire, mixed with grief. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  logic for our calculator would be a finite state machine (FSM)! WAIT. What’s a Finite State Machine (FSM)? NOTE: If you’re familiar with FSMs, you ... of states, state transitions, and inputs. FSMs are widely used in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  Maine for about 20 minutes, but I still think it counts."]three states ... MIT is like that—the journey is long, and it's not about going as fast ... Bachelor of Science degrees, which means that all degrees are SBs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as life-changing as ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... Boston hot on the heels of a long, terrible night of pseudopacking. Packing ... you are and hate all the excess stuff you've got. Anyway, not long

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  together for such a long time, you have lots of stories), about graduate ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I ... project that he'd really like Adam to take on for his master's degree. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... a long line of 22s in Lobby 14 to order my Brass Rat. There were a few ... . The email stated (unsurprisingly) that “due to the current circumstances

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  for a long time. i started to, hold on to your hats, like that random ... long and winding road. it looks different for everyone but it leads you home.    And it's fine to fake it 'til you make it 'Til you do

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  's suitable for the beach, but also dark. Right. So I suggested Vernon God ... whatever weird ideas popped into his head. It's only sixty pages long, but ... -favorite book now; it's terribly long and compendious in its description of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  and a crest proudly stating, "WINNERS OF THE AMAZING RACE 2007". So, you know, even these people did not get into the three-minute-long audition ... people behind us were from State College, and they were trying to get here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  there wasn't much pressure from other students to spend long hours in the ... years ago, I chose between undergraduate programs at Ohio State and at MIT ... going to state school would mean an automatic 4.0 and admission into a top

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  long form essays to a heterogenous blooming of writing, cartoons, GIFs ... this job, do it regularly, and do it well. Biography City, State

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013