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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  ... Went to Montreal for a weekend to visit friends at McGill University ... from Boston if you would like to go on a long weekend trip. It's only one ... fastest pace of life in the United States? Even beating out New York City

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... , the long awaited “tube,” and the holiday cards. But some ... schedule of events was 87 pages long! The aesthetics of MIT do grow on you

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  weights of the top three airplanes at the end of today: University of California, Irvine: 2.86 lbs San Jose State University: 2.04 lbs University ... super-friendly atmosphere, and we got into a lot of long conversations

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  course...)  Startups are hard. I worked long hours, and while in China ... up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi ... T and talking trash about northern California weather. (65 degrees ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... .091 (Intro to Solid-State Chemistry), my love for chemistry was reignited and I ... M.Eng that gives you both a bachelor's and master's degree in five

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  United States, but do happen with some frequency abroad). Instead, ask ... teacher and by no one else. If you attend school outside the United States ... different school, as long as that teacher meets the above criteria. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities ... artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... :45: Dexter?! Lol. 3:00 to 3:30: The guy is from Donghai University, Chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  . I will hopefully be graduating in a year or two with both degrees. A ... practiced almost every day at Yoga in State College, where my mom is getting ... the other side. A giant turtle on my loft, which I’ve had for as long

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  brother or grandma want you to go to X University, so while you may think ... University, and if it’s not a good fit, those four years are going to be ... go to other universities. The magic of the Internet, cheap airfare, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  fulfill an elective for my CMS degree. I had to find another CMS elective if I wanted to finish that degree by this semester. If you don't go here ... after an hour-long break. For that one, I had walked back to the hotel to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  people's majors are MAYBE 2 characters long. Mine is five. And I'm proud ... are a lot of core requirements that must be completed before a degree ... degree from the MechE department and no official recognition from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  'cause they'll just backstab you mentality. Everyone is fake and they ... talking about how we haven't seen each other in so long and that it was ... metaphor. California feels like the first world of many on this long, long

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to ... who called who, they had all the EA admits sorted by state so we just grabbed whichever state we wanted. Most of us went for our home state first

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  or fall-semester finals are also graded P/NR. This means that as long ... as many classes as I could. The opportunity to get out of a semester-long ... frequent state of confusion and dismay, which culminated in me not passing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  JKim. The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise ... the meaning of the highlights in the Fake Bezel: Construction: The ... "fake bezel" had that little speech "build-up" in the beginning, while we

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last night, the MIT women's volleyball team defeated Bridgewater State College

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Admission Counseling (NEACAC), hosted by Boston's Northeastern University ... highly selective universities are now need blind, that wasn't always the ... other state, and more students from India than from Vermont, but in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... ’s talk). The question: how long does it take for all audience members to ... developed long before language, which is why it’s easier for us to think

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016