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  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT was. Conversations with current students led me to believe that MIT’s hardness ranged from “quite” to “extraordinarily”; some even described it as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small-town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students ... asked them to animate and score a Pi Day video…even though they had almost

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] (to scale)[/caption] The Bay Area is huge, which makes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020 resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to climate change, from plate tectonics to exoplanets. Our department is housed ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  it. i mean, sure, i went to acting school for four years, but i ... some scenes, and then sending it to this mysterious council of evaluators ... had to do a live performance in front of retired cast members. the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past ... in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what I have almost always wanted to work on. For those of you that have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the orientation stampede. And I didn't want to miss any MIT opportunities (helped ... House warned the frosh after dorm rush to not go at 90 mph from the start

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... 's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... headed over to the State Room. Luckily, groups of people were still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break between the semesters to relax, recharge, recoup, and reflect*. But somehow I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events ... not expect to like Houston. But now I understand the phrase "southern

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn ... class here at MIT, because I have always wanted to travel to a Spanish speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write an ode. To be totally honest, I'm not even really sure what an ode is. I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  Note: this one is dedicated to the expectant EA applicants. Hope you can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  all this time, I never cease to be thrilled to get to finally meet all ... over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and parents will probably not want answers to the same questions that students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... down to 14E-304: a cozy little seminar room with a central table and ... two fields can come together to construct human history. Even more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013