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• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... great. How many accepted students would actually volunteer their private ... I even have a chance? How do I know if I should apply? The former of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of ... Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links ... another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , as I am uncertain whether he would. Therefore I would like to ask how ... faults and he knows how I work. I think it would help me more to get his ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... couple of great courses dedicated to Sustainability in Business and I ... ? Which ingredients can you procure locally, and how would you define ‘local

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  believe in me, but i have no idea why on earth they would think those things ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I met I would likely not ever see again. But I didn't want that to stop me

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance ... .03[/annotation] reading quiz that was due in the time I would be on the plane. But ... ![/caption] That answers the question of how I’m in Russia. But… why? Why there, why

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career ... (Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Management Science). I found that I really enjoyed the classes I had in course 15 but the course 2

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . 3. Minh and Lizzy asked how I found my UROP position. In the middle of ... plenty of dorm rooms open, but I'm not really sure how it would work ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  qualities, which leaves me wondering how in the world it makes such a ... machine. Coffee was only a quarter in those days, and Gary would say ‘where ... that can benefit: “I would often also emphasize this with my ROTC

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could ... Admissions website. This isn't an easy task. We are deeply invested in our website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  if I was in mortal peril or not. I still don't really know how to tell ... at MIT in physics and math and I was wondering how you managed to take ... I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... I'm sure freshman me would be pretty upset about that. But I guess in ... when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  things in high school (I harboured this dream that I would ace every test ... the UROP website. 4. "I'm not sure what I want to major in.  Is that ... pretty sure that I would be majoring in something bio - Course 6-7, or 7

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  ; DISCUSSION I would like to conclude with an insightful discourse on how MIT ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... view of what I do when I'm not sleeping, or walking, or in class, or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... happier! I have a lot more time in the day, now. I can use the time to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the ... would be the 38th economically richest country in the world, a statistic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015