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• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT ... valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  -door “trained” friends. We also get a budget to organize events and workshops in ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... -house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group ... math books, and a great math teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  serious flaws. Until we are confident in the test's ability to evaluate one ... round get saved in our folders and considered again, along with new RA ... . ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote: "So how were those New SAT Writing scores in early action

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the ... from Kendall/MIT to Porter). Getting off campus and out of the city for ... . It's also a great place for a date. :-) Sleepy Hollow is a cemetery in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to ask that if i apply next year as well in case i dont get in now ... unlikely... what grades do we need to send in... as in, how many years (11 ... grades - try not to get a 'D'! If you do get a 'D' in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... ://continuuminnovation.com/Contact/Boston.aspx UNITE @Continuum from Design Museum Boston on Vimeo. It was great to ... though of how everything around us was “designed.” I took 2

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get ... style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend ... fantastic. We stayed at the Venetian, perhaps only second to the Bellagio in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  look up a youtube tutorial on how to change a spare tire. winter in the ... together: i was in the lab learning how to use a platereader, run fluorescent ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... ready to work in the Real World. The career fair was a great reminder that ... each celebrity, saying, "Come to us! Come meet us! We're super cool!" Get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... to investment bankers to recruiters. It is kind of cool because I get to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  the restaurant at night"--how exciting! I mean, if you happen to live in ... opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  interests to you, and get in touch with people open to hanging out and ... meeting up on Saturday mornings in local cafes to chat in Spanish. Getting ... wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  , because I go to cheerleading practice and throw people around and get muscly ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice ... right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get ... Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Why are you interested in applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006