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• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Subject: History of Women in Science and Engineering (New) | M. Weinstock ... out where their interests lie. Many MIT students are interested in SHASS ... .08J/9.48J Philosophical Issues in Brain Science; HASS-H, CI-H  | E. J

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  ) come in after the January 1 deadline. We're understanding and ... yet to write down in your application. That's fine. Just be sure ... sending things in four times.   Don't waste your money

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a ... instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... prep courses are helpful in that you have a structured environment that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... amazing! From chilling in Simmons, where I remember pulling all nighters

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know because we were both in Beauty and the Beast last year and both as Silly ... freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  attended MIT in many, many years. Not many apply, but when they do, even if ... , while others simply do not." There are a lot of questions in there, but ... in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... , watched Bachelor in Paradise, and just had a really good time goofing around ... and explore topics you might be interested in in a fun and unique way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  've been sitting in, the [annotation note="in japanese, menma"]bamboo shoots ... person would consider young: safe to say they’re in their twenties and thirties. the people in front of me are conversing quizzically about their

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a ... from a line graph: the overarching trend. Given a line graph in pixel ... , decreasing, or neither? The challenge: identify the trend portrayed in a line

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... finish) in lieu of Purple Hibiscus and Unbearable Lightness, because last summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  incoming freshman will not have this semester to see what being in an MIT ... information…. (from the MIT Panhel website) Over 400 women are in sororities at ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests ... semester. If I take the national registry exam, I will also be certified in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the only 24-hour establishment in Boston- so it must be true! According ... the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure ... .) We only went in the wrong direction for about a block and a half, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  hopeless in the academic sense. it was a frustration that was inevitable ... a mix of places both new and familiar -- the mfa, chinatown, boston ... . so now, i'm taking [annotation note="i'll probably elaborate on them in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  . This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maine. Soon after, we'll hit California ... 'll talk about what MIT looks for in an interview and give you some advice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  all-nighters come only once in a while though – or they’ll cease to be ... models, final drafting, final review…There are so many moments in between ... couple of weeks ago, and we just had our new major orientation yesterday

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of ... in my room tonight, accessing the LLARC from my home computer and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005