Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  . ------------------------------------- NoOneInParticular wrote: "Would it be inappropriate / discouraged ... ) with a 3.5 gpa (including several B's in math/science), (b) without special accomplishments (such as high school research, or competition in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  question that is asked. Below, and in my other Questions Omnibus posts, I try ... : once in the late '80's and early '90's, and returned to doing it just ... response in a few days, that does not necessarily mean the EC is ignoring you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in ... have guests, not to exceed three nights in any given week. Overnight guests are permitted in Institute Housing with the advance permission of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard ... involved with permitting MIT students to stay in their dorms when Harvard is in session, but MIT is not?" This is a good question. It's certainly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... : design and manufacture many many yo-yos. We're in groups of 3-6, and we ... in [annotation note="and look out for a joint post from us when this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who spent his time in prison practicing spirituality and magic. when i first ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... . the muscle groups involved in pushing are naturally stronger than the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the country. And it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore ... 't really have that much experience in writing cover letters or a resume; in ... mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would ... , despite enjoying liking coding and writing it out and basking in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which ... idea," he whispered back. In 1982, Fink became a founding member of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  biggest reasons that I declared my double major in CMS so early (I am ... 6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation in CMS. There are four projects of increasing sizes, and all of them

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... checking them out and maybe even staying in one (yay!). Full disclaimer ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... tutor some students in physics, and I would then head home. Here, the day ... a high thrill rollercoaster, just go onto google and type in, “MIT

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... . We split in to groups and designed objects meant to fix a problem in

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  resting up in preparation for all of your RA applications! We will be back ... deferred or those of you still finishing up your RA applications in time for ... . For Deferred Students I was deferred. I will never get in RA, right

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  tragedy that had occured that morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in ... undoubtedly heading to the library to cram for finals - people who in any other ... own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012