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• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  is very helpful to us to have you write in your scores in a way that ... /TOEFL code is 3514, and our ACT code is 1858. Please use the same name on your ... matching the scores to the application. All that being said, it's a good idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two ... analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that ... Fee to discuss the situation. He assured me that in just a few weeks, a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the ... for a week, either to take the lead on my work or to sit back and ... that are important to you and give you fulfillment that is completely

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  and under stress, that is, when you need to make the decision to quit. I ... : the balance between perseverance and self-care is one that we need to ... seeking, a question to which there is no right answer except the one which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  their respective .csv files and created a script to parse out the data ... , and write about, a sociotechnical artifact — whether this is a bot, a tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  for a "wildcard" from the Startup Alley to pitch and compete on stage ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the ... the story. Tickets were a couple thousand dollars. But, my friends and I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  . Admissions is trying to sort through that pile and find the ones that would ... trumpet. Any music points? Yikes. The important thing to know is that there ... 20 points on the SAT, I will guarantee you that there is something

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer ... questions, and try not to make really dumb[annotation note="A neg is when you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space ... is the same age as me, but unlike her, I have never developed the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  for people. I must care for myself too, and that is easy to forget when ... brace for impact and hope for the best. You have to fall with them a ... little better, and wasn't that always the goal in the first place? To make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [LIVEBLOG 🔴] Making My ENTIRE Comic Portfolio BEFORE THURSDAY AND ALSO EVERY OTHER PROJECT IS ALSO DUE THIS WEEK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

  

  comics. I wanted to make a blog where I talked about the class and the ... ="125764" /] Her office is NICE! It was a lovely conversation, and if you want to ... -class work that I redid digitally. It had to show a bunny as the main character

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 4, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... .V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to point in the same direction and stay that way. Add them up, and you get a ... One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  's someone out there who thinks the same way. If that's you, hello. I love you ... with old friends and new, I realized that the joy I was feeling was a joy ... that I'm not who I used to be. For a while in the middle of MIT, I felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  problems. At the same time, it is creating ethical strains and human ... as a college differentiates it from the five schools, and signals that ... College connect to the schools and other parts of MIT? A: As MIT’s senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  and taking a nap for the rest of the semester. Each project is quite ... , none of the links worked, but there were pictures and a pretty rollover ... Mollie has decided that she doesn't want to write any more "this is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  high schoolers begin to subscribe to the mentality that a college is one ... there", and then move on because I probably have a pset to do for the ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  that MIT is hard, and everyone tries to prepare themselves for the fact ... ="I subscribe to the school of thought that introversion vs. extroversion is a ... two other interns, and there was the same ambient social energy to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  , and why all of this means that you will be able to get the scientific ... , and it occurred to me that this was a very legitimate scientific project ... 's hard to pull together all that information and construct your case in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013