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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  (ECs) in these cities, and more. Getting to travel the country, to come ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... Cambridge to Honolulu. Now, we're arranging our itineraries, finding rooms in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... ’re not an applicant this year, but emailed me already, I’ll get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on ... a wonderful institution in so many ways and no matter how you choose

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... Boston has to offer. Get started soon. Sometimes, you should just T it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get ... are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... right now is to discover how things work, to read that one book that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  more seriously in workplace environments, how to sound confident when I ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... ’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  myself puzzling out how to implement a certain feature in the back of my ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... the opportunity, we had to try to squeeze in another restaurant visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a little easier than step one, because if you didn't learn how to drive in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  . It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the ... lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want ... shot, but we decided to stop at my friend Cam's house in Vermont so the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and just get to know each other. In the last 1.5 years, I met ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year. But how do you get a UROP?  A good first step is to look at the UROP openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of ... use most frequently in our day to day lives?! We immediately thought of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... incentive to get us through the day (like during the memorable week when an ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general ... Brass Rat in the spring this upcoming summer :) this weekend! Plans ... ) test getting a head start on my 18.700 (linear algebra) problem set

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  general tips on how to get back on track. Note that each S^3 Dean interacts ... Resources." This post expands on CLAAASS to discuss MIT Academics in general ... , Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  was going to be in the best mood ever and they'd get away with murder ... in. No, don't give me that humility crap, you get into MIT and try to ... drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  Station -> Red Line to Kendall/MIT), then here is how you get from the ... …no shame in being warm :) And get ready to have a great time! ERICK ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  day in 5.112 -5.12 -INTEGARLS* -3.091, or, How to Draw Pretty Pictures ... Milliseconds of 35 MIllisecond Pulsars How to Finish Your HASS Requirement in 50 ... Theory, or How I Learned to Stop Losing and Love Math -The Cities of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013