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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Essay Evaluation (FEE) or which pre-orientation program to take ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  to offload their junk for a fee. I checked my Reuse-Sell folder, and ... often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in ... , daily highs are 35 degrees. during the rainy season, from june to october ... while since you've Decided to test your chances And reach for your goals

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating, training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that, as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all-to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a ... fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and ... and Friday, so I hadn’t devoted much time to either hack prep or sleep. Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the backyard. So clearly I picked MIT, and I wore an MIT t-shirt to school on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  remains relevant to continuing ed-tech utopianism. However, if you're someone trying primarily to understand what Minerva is (and ought to be ... . According to its founder, Internet entrepreneur Ben Nelson, Minerva is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  surprised to see the price differential."]the fees[/annotation]are much, much ... know more about glassblowing than me, please feel free to let me know if ... class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  flat fee and then get to pay half price at dining halls), so those ... -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from college and probably my best friend from MIT to this day. We got our picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  's incredibly hard to live on your away from home, especially with your friends ... might face living with friends. I wanted to compile some tidbits I managed to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  ="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee ... environmental engineering"]Course 1.[/annotation] So, here’s what I’ve been up to for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  MIT's student. About the payment, my application fee (i tried to submit ... It's time to answer more questions... You should know that writing up ... answers are brief, but I hope that by publishing answers to all of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  . Not that you are somehow required to be involved with clubs and ... me to not be involved with much of anything, so I set out to fix that ... E. '16. Dan and I went to high school together, and now live in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in this entry. I'd like to be helpful as you prepare to submit your application. However, before you submit your question, I'd like to ask you to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009