Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... and try the hardest you can in your classes - the semester will be over

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order ... ']Learned how to use a hair stick[/annotation] Got stuck in a slinky Embarked ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  daughter. "I can find one of those cheap places to stay and I can spend the ... back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... local: I can go home to get things. Sometimes that means I can go home and ... with a healthy helping of pasta, a sadly bimodal fruit salad (in which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  , hard-to-reach views (can you guess where in Simmons this was?) If I ... , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I nailed a back handspring first time since high school; I can flip ... schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  can’t do MISTI I’m looking forward to this class. 21L.702 Studies in ... season is in full swing and I’ve been kept passably sane by practice and ... previous only works if you say it in one of those movie-trailer voices. I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film ... , no, I am not one of those people. Not just because I’m busy and generally dislike superhero movies, but because I know exactly what will

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... Lloyd, "Julia Child" // Sam Shames, "Proving You Can Dream" // Andrew Wang

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  Not these guys, I hope. Hopefully, instead you'll call these two ... to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what they do. I've never seen a more packed Kresge. Not even for a Logs

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... , we can afford to take some time off. As for me, I'll be spending about ... I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  , and can I just say: SO THERE. Study Shows Boys and Girls Equal in Math ... , I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I ... that interest me. The report is in after 4 weeks and I absolutely love ... Winston and his no electronics policy I was wary coming in but all my fears

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  submit the form? Yes. There is an option where you can indicate this. I ... . Got it. Ok, how do I fill this form out? The form has fields for you to ... ; put it only in the subject section like this: Java I (taken at B

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  ! How else can I help with your summer visit? For those of you who plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer them in ... 45 minutes in length and are conducted by admissions officers (I do one

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

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  As I told you in my last entry, my mother has become concerned about my life here at MIT. I mentioned awhile ago that by now, basically my ... yes. I am enrolled in 4 classes and one seminar this semester, so let

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  management tools and strategies that I can implement in the future. Only two ... mountain face, skis and poles left behind in the dust, I asked him how he was ... A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m taking college classes, do I apply for transfer admission?

  The transfer process is intended for students who have finished high school and completed at least one year of college. If you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  three different aliases in the blogosphere) and I prepared a modest ... ’d caught herself in a pre-college Alaskan life), and I stumbled through the ... when you head to the dining hall?” she requested. “If I can wake up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with historic architecture and libraries that smelled like old books. I enjoy how ... excellent study environment. I don’t mind working in corporate corners of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022