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• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I sometimes don't ever get past the recall part, so I decided to outsource that ... of notes to self. And with that, I will try to get those 7 hours of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  individual merits. Maybe they'd both get in. Maybe neither would get in. And of ... , I don't care about how much financial aid we'll have to give you ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... Valley with a population over 4,000 students. How did you get to MIT? I ... shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a ... positionings, especially when it comes to centering. In the class, we were ... the larger lumps, and I started using both hands to keep the clay in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... semester doesn’t look like it’s going to be any easier. In fact, I got some unexpected good news yesterday from my UROP supervisor—I get to attend CHI

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... . How supportive are MIT faculty in encouraging students' ideas? What ... seminar was arriving. They were encouraged to play with the models in the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$), and in fact it is! To see just how good out ... between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and, like, get your PhD in doing that. 6. Why bother to photograph and ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... inter-floor activity fund whereby the entire dorm gets $3000 a term to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... ; far be it from me to weigh in on it with empirical evidence. But what I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there ... random rock-paper-scissor tournaments, assaulting people to get them interested in working for MIT's ambulance - "HEY! RYAN! YOU WANT TO RIDE AN

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I ... was crazy. Time for holiday cheer. But no time to get lazy. 2nd ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works ... else who had gotten into MIT and struggled to meet other kids. In ... 't know how to confess these reasons, because they seemed so shallow

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  ), please contact Michael Yang in the Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch with your financial aid officer ... 've already said NO to MIT: Thank you for having applied; it was great getting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... -generated censorship, or how people manipulate social media to suppress speech. While I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the ... for the people in my life, to ensure that I will see them. I am mindful ... it still goes wrong? How many people is it possible for me to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024