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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  intentionally by taking eight classes a semester so they can graduate in two years ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it ... the CS/math majors I know are in this class, including a '14 down my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  ’ve been trying to diversify my reading, in every sense of the word I can ... or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  we can. Money and financial aid will be discussed. How do you apply for ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... useless trivia, then yes, you can. I go nuts over this site. [caption id ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It ... year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first ... dating websites. When I read it in Freakonomics, I freaked out. And then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  recall how the topic came up, but as we were talking, I was applying ... primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... in between the channel-flipping. I promised that in this entry, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... time in MIT I had completed an exam with several minutes to spare. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... , and how they arise in development--as well as looking for other special ... our undergraduates can become central players in the hottest, most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  and internships in Japan!!"]MISTI Japan program[/annotation]. I was ... equipment in the lander. Every once in a while it hit me that: Woah. I ... job, and I often told my family that I felt like I was in an episode of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  do, and I think it's just so incredible how well they manage their time ... service programs, and I can't wait to continue to do all of these cool ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... a soldering iron but how to interact with others in the spirit of ... song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Mmmmmmmmmm, you can practically smell the radiation. I think what really drives ... , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... check out this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you can have a guest entry ... ) describing your experiences. I'll also throw in my Harvard Book Store frequent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  family during the holiday season. I love them – they can be connected in ... unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks ... !" "Hell?!" says the man. "But, Satan! I thought I was already in hell. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  , Megan F' 19, me, Jessie W. '19, and Vivian Z. '19. Can't even remember how ... esoteric diagrams, numbers, and concepts than I can keep track. Exams are ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  MIT sucks. About two weeks ago I stayed up until 3 AM baking a cake in ... ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... vaccinated almost 3,000 people in six hours. The process is remarkably

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011