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• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website ... any news in your life. This is not required nor is it expected, but if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website if you ... in your life. This is not required nor is it expected, but if anything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... something therapeutic about complaining. So in keeping with MIT tradition I am

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of my vacation photos. In this case, getting the right answer took two ... character in the picture is a modification of the 'Masked Rider' who was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who died 1 week ago :(']buzzing in[/annotation] as soon as they know the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... around campus, dressed up in our Air Battle Uniforms (you know, the green ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  disclaimer in case the title doesn't show this, I am writing this ... concept since last summer, in Denmark, when I realized that every mechanical engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  . We had our website tech lead, who was, yes, in charge of the website ... the website to put their phone number in the queue, and then HQ would ... on the website, and then a few minutes later someone in HQ would call

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  in her last post as an undergrad, "Take your living group selection seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in the summer in case you get stuck there, but consider Dorm Rush (REX

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  In numerical order, this term, I am taking: 4.614; 7.012; 14.02; 14.30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology ... Architecture and Islamic Cultures Statistical Methods in Economics Can you match

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... totally in favor of a professor calling me Master Snively. "What an ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  usual pork belly in my Miso ramen, though). We then went to Nike to buy ... because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... waited in the car, promising that I'd visit again soon. I had even been ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  those lines that are not written in English, note that Colin read them in ... English translation in brackets. https://youtu.be/dGiehdTV5Ok   Class ... , followed by “yo, 你怎么样?”, which means “yo, what’s up?” in Mandarin Chinese

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... ’s financial shakiness was magnified in my family by my parents’ youth and ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  assembling her course schedule, picking up her textbooks - and buying a ... allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... experiment at MIT several years ago has now taken hold in the campus culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008