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• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never ... :       Don't refer to yourself in the 3rd person. It

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... thankfully in English and adapted to make more sense in modern times, and I ... armies," even though she had decided in herself to leave the cause to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  pursue the sport. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, how I ... and off the ice. I've even had the opportunity to perform in shows and ... 't always have time to get proper treatment and have to nurse it on my own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in ... not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  !* So I get to class on Tuesday and see this: "Interesting, that should ... what it seems like to me. My professor was sitting at home, in his ... for learning about capacitance. Well, we'll have to rectify that in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see ... spins do matter to the hydrogen atom. If the particles are spinning in the ... a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... student here, learning how to think is still the most important thing anyone

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... ) to the professional work we're about to begin. My primary role in this ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  and games either. In writing classes, there are essays to write, speeches to give, and presentations to make. In Japanese classes, there are texts to memorize, drills to practice, and grammar to study. In Art

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant ... quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  a long weekend in which to get away from MIT! (Something that all you ... college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don ... local: I can go home to get things. Sometimes that means I can go home and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... 's from all different industries were going to be gathered in one place less

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give ... guys, if you get into MIT there's a high likelihood that you'll get to ... swimmingly. In addition to our suites there are several others, one of which is

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  , the biggest music festival in Denmark dedicated to metal. Tickets have been sold out since before the pandemic, but volunteers could get in free ... get a tattoo (apparently at the metal fests in Scotland, which are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement ... . :) Max In my freshman year, Course 10: Chemical Engineering decided to add ... standard in engineering and it will inspire students to look into biology

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... ones did, in the sense that I’ve had to do much more struggling and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in ... take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... feeling in the air. Listening to the exciting vamp in the background

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... assignment was to bring in photos and talk about why we liked/disliked them. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008