Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Report et al, I would suspect that your Midyear Report is in your ... and I do not know if MIT would accept score reports in March! Right ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  recently.   I came home from college having all these plans for how I would ... story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What was the biggest surprise? What would you tell those who couldn't attend? For those of you who couldn't make it: What would you like to know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in ... as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull ... ,[/annotation] indeed............. I decided to go to Firefly back in May. the tickets ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  more people in a day than I would in a week of high school, I felt ... 1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the research I would do in the coming years. I applied for a long ... Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... note="I wonder how that'll hold up with inflation"]$20, 20 years from now

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  anything that felt off. Every once in a while, I would begin to feel hopeful ... do. And I was so afraid that we would forget him. And, in some ways, we ... ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  out how the paper was meant to be written: if only I had checked in ... thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... through all possible scenarios in my head: if it was locked, would I walk

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  longest I had ever been away from home prior to then would be my three week ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  feeling totally shaken, but having learned more in that hour than I would ... more depth. I decided way back in freshman year that my concentration would be Literature; I love the department here. Sure, it's "small

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back ... times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... : I don't think I can single out one specific experience. I would say

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  . Bryan: Hey, long time no see. How was Cambridge? Friend: I really liked it ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... tissue engineering applications. Aside from my time in lab, I've been

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  . Mike asked how much time I spend on homework each week, and if it would ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I ... unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  would be an utter failure as a person. I was losing my tenuous grasp of ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  records in the dead ball era. Same for songs. I swear I remember the lyrics ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  did not realize until I left or just before how much I would miss the ... them in one weekend just before the Jan. 1 deadline) (but would not ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed ... -opening experiences have been things I never imagined I could or would do before as an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  sin un sistema operativo. Después de tres días, a merced de How-To Geek ... . Algunas tiendas, como Best Buy, incluso le devuelven dinero en forma de crédito de ... procesador Intel Core i5 o i7. Si puede conseguir el i7 mejor, es más rápido

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015