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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school

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

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people ... . To learn how an extraordinary collaboration across research disciplines ... such a threat to humanity * How vaccines are designed * What the new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the eagerness to get the hell out of the desert, I lost sight of the foundation

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them ... most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there ... , and trudged across the street to MIT Medical. Sitting in the waiting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... students to know how I felt, how marvelously physics displays itself in ... changed in life. For example, I realized how little I know and how uncertain

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  then get to fry all kinds of delicious foods in our two deep fryers. 19 ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to ... topics in math ranging from algebra to topology. 17:17 - 20:17 Liquid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  that I've decided to live my life as a boy, and will be getting a court ... much to report (besides my first oral exam in Japanese). There'll be ... support! It's been a long month of spamming people I haven't talked to in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a ... , you can apply it to the magnitude of abstraction you take in a subject ... The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... preschool, my well-intentioned dad taught me how to say “stop it” to arm me ... in trouble a second time for telling my teacher to go to hell when she

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

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in only a beer keg with one in which you are compelled to eat far too much ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  enough to get in the first time, you’ll improve by participating in ... wanted to be in Techiya, not because they wanted to be in the Chorallaries ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in ... Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to work so hard was horseback riding. She goes to Our Day Farm in Elgin six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going ... Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n). ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... . Anyways, it's very hard for me to put into words how much this show means to ... used to be pretty deeply entrenched in the YouTube hole for the majority

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... pie had a hidden cost in the form of this rating inquisition. Not one to ... interpretation of a given individual and how applicable it may be to them.  I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT ... didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation ... during the summer, so I wanted to share these with you. When and how you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  ? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How ... Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  (try “Science, Technology, and Public Policy”). I don’t get to turn in ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The ... classes alongside similarly involved people, and thus don’t often get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015