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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer ... pushed for us to be right before finals. You can imagine that this can be a ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... of Supply’s goal for 2012? Kevin says they’d love to be on Comedy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... of statistics with enough depth for you to test out. Second, advanced ... sound dumb to some people for asking this, but who cares, right? And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to ... hadn't reached out to anyone for recommendations. We hadn't requested any ... signed up for two test dates and found 3 recommenders willing to write us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... senior who taught me how to prepare a turkey and run a kitchen for ... over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  decide to reapply to MIT for freshman admission. As a matter of policy we ... applying to MIT for Early Action, don’t worry. We’ll extend your Early Action ... access to MyMIT), and they should be able to accommodate your request for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  to for a couple of months. Some of my favorite organized internet ... . Even if your level of Wikipedia-involvement is limited to searching for ... process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  /11/11 was the most universally auspicious time for me to contact my ... -orientation programs you can choose as a prefrosh to get to campus early for activities ... ! It’s exactly time for me to go have some wild fun at Orientation week

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  !! Thanks everyone for such a fantastic week :) and thanks to my dear friend ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I print out past exams for my next three organic chemistry and genetics

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I mean 'since I became an admissions blogger'. To this day, I maintain that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors to Kresge Auditorium opened half an hour earlier. When I wandered into

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  places I’ve been missing: Darwin’s (my go-to coffee shop for midterm and ... And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with the usual last-minute packing or the rush over to Logan airport, but

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote: “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  , mom). Well, I'm happy to report that I haven't once eaten ramen for ... cooking for yourself is dragging yourself out of bed each Sunday to get ... at all the dining-plan-people trying to cook for the first time during

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  all summer... actually no, it's mainly for when you want to sway back ... still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  you could possibly want to work for. The database has the contact ... Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an interesting question, one that took me about four years to figure out how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... '07 all came by to ask for my signature on their nomination forms. (They ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  digital format, present both the lesson and design plan to instructors for ... being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014