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• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... every student we admit we know can do the work in both MIT's science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  out what, and how much, to buy. I don't know about you, but I never did ... even thought, hey, everyone will be wearing duct tape. What can I do to ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  day, and all I can say is it's kind of crazy how I am literally alone in ... think it speaks for itself, I can't begin to describe how glorious this ... RSVP deadline, but alas, I can't really blame them, I might have been in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of ... fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... lock in my major—meaning I could change direction if I didn’t enjoy my ... . Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some ... /Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about 350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I ... listening to when I signed that card. 1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ='Alan: you can read about CJ’s experience writing in this absolutely ridiculous ... around ⊥IW. You can see the hunt website and puzzles here: perpendicular ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  , and that means something - unfortunately, I can't go back in time and ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  writing, in shaping how we are capable of thinking - he later built upon in ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  strangers. Like how I was in the bus stop the other day, and someone asked me ... it in a week or two. Here, I can get it delivered in two or three days ... isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , Microsoft Kinect doesn't work well for people in black clothing!), I loved the ... —all in under five minutes per activity! I loved the experience. If only ... website offers free lesson plans for educators. Although anyone can purchase

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How do I contact a current student?

  website, you may follow the adventures of our student bloggers as they
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy ... world. Where an MIT education can fall short, however, is in "soft skills ... *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... interactive maps. Then, I took each entry in the list, grouped them by common

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  card and can get in. For that reason, I usually don't own these, but I ... tea in the next photo...) Nutella: what more can I say? I love bread ... -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls ... walk, how I am or am not in the flow, to how it takes me time to relearn

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  interested in neuroscience (I spent half my time with him babbling about how ... figure that you might be curious about how I spent my summers (particularly ... on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  in my head, I was planning how I would update my resume. One cover ... In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  Guidelines website. If youТƒфre interested in doing a UROP this semester, now ... : Thursday, Thursday September 14, 2006. Keep in mind that there are three ... , for example two years ago I was funded by the Cathy M. Comeau Memorial

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006