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• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  noted. Earlier today, I had a chance to (briefly) visit the kind folks in ... appling for financial aid) As you may have read on our website, we plan to ... budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... loved getting to know over the course of IAP! Maya and I worked together ... restaurant. It was challenging to get onboarded, learn background information

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... kind to Rosalind. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even realize how good ... access to Rosalind's data and photographs in slightly sketchy ways- not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling ... know that he graduated first? =p). For some reason (to be discussed in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  myself to not let myself get buried so far in my classwork that I don ... baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... preserved monument to Cambridge's role in this very early stage of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  'm pretty sure now that there isn't any other way to get it in your head. So ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously considered attending any schools on the West Coast, because I wanted to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• 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 ... each celebrity, saying, "Come to us! Come meet us! We're super cool!" Get ... , hot hour just to get inside. Now, being a freshman, going to the

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

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... Flag Campaign to demonstrate how interpersonal violence affects our ... : students get many opportunities to donate blood on campus. Seen from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our phones and unplug our Ipods at key moments in the day to fully engage in ... these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham, who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October ... get to go up to them and say, "Boy, that really was the bee's knees ... how Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, would have wanted his legacy to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  in person, or just how much "mathematical maturity" I need to take it ... selections, so that you can introduce yourself, get acquainted, and check in ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... 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

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

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days ... st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... considered for Early Action. Q: Should I rush report my scores to get them to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... times. i just want to get homework done!! and do nothing else!!! but ever

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  belief that things will get done, no matter how impossible it seemed in the ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... .04 was how useful it can be to have good people to work with. 4. 5

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023