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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ! ================================================= It could have been any number of early mornings my freshman year at MIT ... graduation. For most of my time at the Institute, I fully believed them, using ... any of my academic classes at MIT prepared me for many the challenges I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  of it. having exhausted the poetry workshops offered at MIT, i am ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT ...  MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... , free pizza, liquid nitrogen ice cream, donuts, dinners at fraternities ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no ... entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes, and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  or not-so-secretly like working right at the edge of our abilities. I ... , because I think I would have gotten bored and slacked off. (Many of us at ... A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions

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

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  . At the conclusion of the tour, student tour guides lead a tour of ... visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  horizontal piece of PVC. At the end of Rush the fraternities make bids and ... who got bids at least. There are exceptions, of course, but people who ... solution. I spent all of my time at a particular fraternity in hopes of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this ... from other people. But at school, when those are really the only types of ... I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  ;lt;br /> He's also a pro at erasing the boards. Sure some of the ... of Maseeh, you will see clusters of students at every other table and ... Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and ... feet. Talking to Prof. Reddien reminded me of this a lot. At MIT and at ... -up routine at an open-mic night? Who knows. For those of you who were admitted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent student success at the Institute. As such, we had hoped that the public

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... are not offered in English. Will the people at MIT be able to find ... official school profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... situation or is able to offer relevant advice or at the very least just guide ... Ruth said: "Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... TO GO TO HERSHEYPARK! Riding in the front seat of Storm Runner at 11 AM ... both named Roger Taylor. I started writing two entries while at home

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... my background of a very diverse family, I feel very comfortable here at ... popular at MIT." Hi Farai, So to respond to your first question, I think I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... shot of passengers sitting at the gate. "In the event of a change in ... of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your ... -by-term breakdown of my lowest test scores at MIT. Fall 2003 -- I was inconsolable ... and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006