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• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  While we are still waiting to hear from everyone, and hence it is too early to know anything about the waitlist, the Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... long time, but I assure you, it is better not to rush such important matters. Right now, I'm listening to the Three Tenors, blogging (obviously

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them ... take place up to several months before formal acceptance letters hit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a ... to students and fellow admissions officers that this is a relatively

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  industry partners work together to develop technologies that advance soldier ... research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on applied research to transition promising results toward practical products
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ...  approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early ... ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  just took them. because I knew I wanted to take them more than I cared ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although ... but I knew I wanted to go into the next semester differently. I didn

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner ... spontaneously gathering people to celebrate took walking 20 feet from my room. it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... stereotypically like rules. They provide formal systems with which to navigate the ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and the only one on my floor. As hurricane Henri made its way to Rhode ... CourseWare']OCW[/annotation] to prepare for my [annotation note='Single Variable Calculus']18

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself. going to onboarding meetings where people talk about company values

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given ... how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is

  • by Ella T. '25
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... spent months pondering and debating every possible answer to these

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to ... top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into ... bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014