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• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  discuss it in person. Sometimes, things can get misconstrued or ... , we are taking 6.910 Independent Study in EECS!  We really wanted to ... offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions ... are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... officers themselves, were different and special in their own way. However, I ... during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1 ... blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during ... write about things you do at MIT. Admissions officers can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  I've used in my life (finally something hot enough for proper wok ... year. I think a mouse died in my walls the other week. Another resident ... caulk, I fill in a couple of suspiciously mouse sized holes with the same

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  , knowing that we can only take fewer than 400 people during Early Action. I ... for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  * "this bad boy can fit so many velociraptors in it” – Anonymous MIT ... participate in the program. “Is this the button that opens the door? I really ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... school counselor handed me the microphone after her warm welcome I was in ... the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  support staff, were funded in part by IBM, How is timeshare computing ... infrastructure in their own homes. That's how Google serves it's hundreds of millions of users. That's how people can start their own websites without

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in ... and can still multiply and divide just fine in her almost-senile 90 year ... siblings), and I find that I can't really relate to that at all, and perhaps

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  where I test the limits of how one can graduate from MIT. Perfect for ... fall so you can graduate in three semesters with every major? Sure thing ... [/annotation] 24 26.5 (The Course 6 classes are highlighted in bold.) Wait, how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find that I had in fact already graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in ... . The first one I actually made looked like this: Which, in true MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the ... as a harmless sounding “Exam 1”. I also don’t like how I borderline

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  , watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in ... than expected! So, we've been in the kitchen a lot the past two weeks ... pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  learned how to eat.” Hmm, it is a good book. But I’m still eating cupcakes that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... was stopped in traffic on the Mass Pike. (I don’t recommend this) But I

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  armies and a slave named Caroline Terry. In case you're interested: As I ... 't think I've seen a snake that big, except maybe in the zoo. Or in the first ... back in the day, when a little green tree snake slithered over my foot. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  in Cambridge and doesn't actually live there, I'm sort of detached from ... 't appear to be very fond of us.) #56 - I want this book. (How about it, Mom ... face-to-face conversation, but via email. I get email from my dorm, from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009