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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work ... that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing, or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... wanted to live and which activities i was interested in, but i ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  have enough time to get to know everyone i wanted to even though i ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player. How to cheer very loudly on the sidelines. I remember the only time I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  /not sleep deprived we were to run the 10-minute-walk to our bus stop to get ... reevaluating everything we had done in high school to try to find that *one ... comparing ourselves to others we knew of that got in. We just thought a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International ... get to eat dinner with former MIT students who now work at companies where you want to work SWE (Society of Women Engineers) Banquet -- you get

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  that the earliest I can start is in August? (I like to get things done ... can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I have already submitted my RD application, without filling in the "SAT to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists ... group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover ... freshmen at one point. No matter how hard it seems, you'll get through it, it

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  that you had an interview, which we're happy about, and we get in touch ... bit murky: Are those that choose to interview more interested in MIT and ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  that Alex was going to MIT. In light of this complaint, MIT and Cornell ... super hero group is a bit easier than getting in. Bullwinkle Moose Yes ... out of scraps in the desert, not to mention building his own mechatronic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... QuestBridge Supplement, and they will receive directions on how to submit ... If you’re applying to MIT through QuestBridge College Match, simply
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at ... weeks before I shipped out to Harvard, I was participating in the National ... . Cummings and, after explaining that I was going to be be in Cambridge during

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me ... want to see another piece of sushi again in my life. For the days since ... relevance to the fields I want to enter. In the past couple of days, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  trying to be somebody they're not. But how is this relevant? In this day ... try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it ... (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  , opportunities It never ceases to amaze me at how many opportunities there are at ... performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I ... ).... and I've decided to be ME (get the pun?)!! Why you might ask? Well... it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019