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• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis ... completely packed! Some new friends from the Kentucky (left) and Long Island ... or Kim, who weren't in the earlier picture but who are super cool). If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... . Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about the things in [EECS Opportunities List ... full-time job. In the most literal sense, given that it is roughly 30

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on several nights to finish aggravating p-sets, and in me having to think more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a ... ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... woefully undercovered in most US curricula, and the first book we read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... enough along in it now to explain what it's been like from my perspective

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... there are new topics I've learned, and I'm very grateful for that. I took ... Cartesian vectors, except in polar coordinates, so there's a vector pointing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... 've taken before. Joon's in it with me too! 6.902 + 6.911 + 6.912 (GEL) - GEL ... different UI modalities we'll be learning about in the class. CMS.362 (Civic

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... screws appear to be in their right holes, in a 10 hour marathon lab day ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  actually involved in selecting the class of 2010??" You can view some of them in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the ... you school does not follow the US school system do you need to hand in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  -- it is this Monday, November 1. In an effort to be helpful and ease ... in this thread. However, before you submit your question (in the ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  that I have at least 15 new dance videos in my subscriptions every day ... 've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... calls with friends, old and new. i've started playing slay the spire, and ... means "i shouldn't be procrastinating on my work". i mean it in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I ... in southern Californ--"Where?" I grew up in Los Angeles. "Okay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  - it's a scenic drive up in northern New Hampshire and perfect for a day ... summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... with me in East Campus over the summer as well. But the first two weeks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018