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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  posters to advertise for the event Deep Talks with Shallow People. The event ... ="Support Communities For First-Years"]SCUFFY,[/annotation] [annotation note ... emotionally taxing. From August 23rd to the 30th, dorms hosted events to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been ... to be friends”. But that’s part of the fun I guess. We’ll see. For now ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------------------------- Campus Preview Weekend Registration Deadline The deadline to register for ... requesting to join - it's how Emma and Michael (the admins for the facebook ... your peers than you will from your classes - and for that to happen, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... managing to put psets aside for a bit and venture out into Boston. Sometimes ... , despite having no time to actually [annotation note="really hoping for the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one ... perfectionists: there's room for you to iterate, improve and optimize -- but when ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was ... an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye ... dragged two friends to a book talk at the harvard coop, where we learned

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  important takeaway for any prefrosh reading this is to please not worry about ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This is mostly because I've given away far too many company shirts to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  , and tried not to think about the fact that we'd been in the car for ... two of his friends from Montana, who just moved to Boston for college ... 'll have a few days to (FINALLY) unpack, before registering for classes (WHAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still settling down, we wanted to give you all an update as soon as possible ... ). Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able to admit anyone off the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... have class from noon to 4, so I usually eat lunch during my documentary ... Kennebunk, Maine. The sand was the perfect dampness for writing, so I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your appetite: It was my turn to cook for the Tetazoo Food Coop, and my partner Sarah, '12 decided that, in addition to our delicious rice and chicken

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  MIT Admissions plans to make Regular Action decisions available ... to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a million other blog entries that I've been meaning to write - including ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... , but it made me slightly rethink my plan. I'd have to go for smaller ... to be alive for the next 07/07/07, though, I'll definitely start

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he answers questions for kids. I particularly like his answer to the last question. It was a bit weird to be sitting in the same room with the guy who

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent ... believe that the economists might have something useful to say about this topic. Questions to be taken up include, but are not limited to: Is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  spaces for regular action, further pressuring people to apply early. We don ... committed to admitting no more than one-third of our class during early action. We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... collaboration. Students are encouraged and expected to work with each other on homework, or psets, in MIT-speak. For any given pset, you likely won't be