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• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is ... population (and indeed the student population as a whole) is quite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... .In Part 2,section 3 of the application,there is a question asking students

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  French ability. The French program is new, and it’s taking 5 students to ... ! IAP Madrid (and now, London!) IAP Madrid is a program hosted by the ... great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  my writing now and am kind of sad at how stiff it is. There's not a lot ... because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to ... . Then, I took each important part and allotted it to a specific essay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  ’t find the right words to describe a [annotation note="and nothing at all ... writing and not-writing I just realized that I didn’t exactly feel the same ... close to the water and peer in. But, I found that most of the grass was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the ... another, and I trust the actions. Albeit, I do admit that habits can feel ... normal, accept that it has happened, and try to do better the next day

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  only there were a way to show you the humble beginnings of the 'net ... think that website belonged to one of most elite schools in the country ... 't quite inspire the same awe and respect that the school deserves does it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  's taking the same classes, and you're bound to find pset partners without even leaving your floor. The bottom line is that it's up to you- if you ... whole class and occasionally asks the students to do problems as a group

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  mention that shoveling snow is a pain? Being able to have my car entirely ... not a good idea to bring to campus, and I tend to agree (given the lack ... the middle of the day, so I head to a library or coffee shop and catch

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... continues. There comes a point, however, when all the integrals and chemical ... little something I like to call a study break.” And oh, there are study

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking ... move on to the next. I took one look at the question and just burst out ... , Zach '08 chose that exact moment to come into the suite to annouce that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  . The country is in a state of terrible disaster and trauma and we need a ... ," to which I responded "SAME THING BABY!!" and laughed at her like a ... better place. Remember that there are many ways to make the world better

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  get a copy of some book shipped to them. i picked the unbearable ... website traffic[/caption] the thing about code jam is that you only see a ... ? a friend linked the listing to me, so i applied, had an interview, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... by Niven & Pournell (there's a page that explains the metaphor ... , debug, and generally try to break the technologies they were developing, I/S

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  water to a 100-meter altitude and then dump it out of the airplane like an ... cars and drove over to our hotel, a sunny Days Inn by the highway, where ... Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  is, and as much as i want to look at this paragraph and say that i was ... was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the ... would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  view MIT as a magical place and compare it to Hogwarts. They view the ... . I know that is a lie from Lord Voldemort. The main comparison that I ... all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  : that is to say, I might as well make some money. And there are many ... financebro is clearer to me than the one I’d follow as a course ? focusing on ... . And, in spite of me sending the same copy-paste interest email to most

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  channel to play Sting's 'The Last Ship', which is sort of our de facto hall ... to do that for the sole purpose of getting swole enough to do a kip up ... myself to learn a new song every few days and post it to the singstagram I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020