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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  to talk to someone else in the department who specializes in IT. Have ... was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  know how to make. This led to me somehow being designated as being "in ... everything in their rooms and taping their room keys somewhere to their body ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... this whole process. But that Saturday morning I was there to learn how to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  of getting in based on your test scores ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case ... potentially rake in tens of thousands of dollars. Reply to no-reply corporate

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue ... ;Introduction to Research Topics in Neuroscience.” Emilienne says that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  inspired me to then start sorority rush in the fall of freshman year. Convince the adMITs to come to CPW. Getting them to come to campus is the best way to help them find their place at MIT. Get advice from alumni

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... one that asks applicants to describe a situation/project/idea in which ... problematic for us. In this example, having experience does not work to your

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... one's decision to work in finance are shrouded in the pretense of “it ... trades (i.e. don’t need to be in super early, don’t need to be on our toes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the ... 't see the genius in that one yet). Anyway, how is the music department at ... ! - Wenhao Sun As far as late Beethoven goes, I'd really like to get into him

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know ... had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... checking my messages. (for geographic reference, refer to how to find your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  're getting closer! 10:45am: A quick walk through Lobby 7, soon to be the site ... least for now -- "How to Succeed at the MIT Mystery Hunt by Being Really ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... . To get interesting things done, and go interesting places, solely ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... about all the things that must have happened in there in the past. how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local ... their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... attempted to move the holiday earlier in the year to increase the length of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  friend :) Course 8 was next in line to Course 9, so I managed to get a ... the class. I was startled when my row was asked to stand up and get in ... or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... get in. I was almost certain that I would get rejected from MIT, and I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  allows you to get the rest of your life in order first. And, most ... possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at ... you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  - which is how you perform in relation to the rest of your class). Thus, if ... difficult to get As in certain classes. However, in 8.02, you're told from the ... worms are excellent times to think about how everything in biology ties

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008