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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... , not to one of its 5 schools. ------------------------ Zack Yang wrote

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... ." "OK LET'S DO THAT!" Anyway. Lots of questions, lots of answers

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer from one of them, then I’d strongly consider doing an internship there ... try to look for an internship, although several of my friends did. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... my absence was hard, but the true impact of leaving hit while I was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next term. It becomes second

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... different suite) every year so far. Not only have I painted all of these rooms, but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... get it approved because you haven't really heard of anyone else doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in ... how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer science classes in general; as a math major, I feel like a lot of concepts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... , when it was built 128 years ago. After an illustrious career of ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  taken made it look like some sort of captcha. I offered to help with the ... ? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they have? KC1RQI” “rice? soop of ... quarantine. It started with a regular Wikipedia rabbit hole, but out of extreme

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexual appeal to offer them do they finally treat me as one of them. That I ... tw: slight nsfw language and talk of objectification and ... of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up. This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  , looking for a place to crank out 20 minutes' worth of a pset. I offered him ... old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is ... class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  behind us, and he offered to have someone give us a tour of 5th East. SWEET ... the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... Californian (Nor Cal REPRESENT!), 5'2", and a lover of all things food. I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  to take me up on the offer of an MIT tour. A week later, Josh Shiode e ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... sponsorship group boldly asked panels of businesspeople for money. For the three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don ... sent out postcards confirming the receipt of your form, but apparently ... dot edu. You haven't answered by question in any of the past few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006