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• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  egalitarian in that way. We really want to do our best for the students and ... example, a father and daughter drove from rural Idaho to see my meeting in ... fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to ... that i’m open to listening. how presumptuous of me to think that i mean

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• FAQ / Visit

  How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?

  We look forward to showing you what makes MIT so special! We offer in-person info sessions and tours as well as online sessions. Head over to our ... . But don't feel like you have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  blog post by Anna H. ‘14 called How to get a UROP that goes further into ... 's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph ... that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can ... same questions that students will. That said, it's important to check in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  latter. So if you ever wanted to find out how to do the airport ... ™,[/annotation] here's my advice: Get to the airport so early that you learn that you ... while waiting Get mad you're not that good at Tetris Check to see if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... challenge is proctored to help them identify aptitude, understand how students ... concepts are in our daily lives -- it might even motivate some students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  year because he decided to live in Burton Conner and we already had 3 ... and try to work together to make everything a little better in the field ... ! Mad props to Stanford students - if I lived in a place that cool I'm not

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the ... properties either those inherent to the cell or those in the local environment

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... down with me and explained to me, in a way that actually made sense, how ... that aren’t taught in class—like how to coordinate a complicated software

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... wanted to do lab research for the longest time, but after getting a UROP in ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you ... and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel ... good at in high school, and you definitely don’t need to know what you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a ... guy, and it’s been going okay i guess. i get that it’s meant to be ... this past week? how is your next week going to be? are you being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  In response to my last entry, Drew asked: "So, how important is it ... be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... finally figured out how to open the trunk to look for the ice scraper Zipcar ... was in an operable state. These are problems we never have to deal with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... to learn how to teach in a way that works for them, and that I don ... literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  particularly happy with how the blue-to-clear gradient in the frit came out. The ... learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022