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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  now. The one unfortunate part of August is packing and moving. Although all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was ... you want to paint and he always says yes. Then at the end of the year

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school ... are wrong. One of the things about college is if you do not limit

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6 ... -functioning **by “I’d built” I mean “they wrote most of the code with a few sections

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... . Spontaneity was essentially thrown out of the window. By the end of the work day ... being completely bored out of my mind. By July, even the television I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the ... of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... either pay the application fee of US$65 or obtain a fee waiver. Fee waivers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... some of the slight mishaps I've had to deal with stemming from my brain ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I noticed that the taxi was actually offering free rides to anybody who joined

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... , I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... , but my general impression is that growing up is just the process of ... your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  limited by the lack of arts it offered. We asked our guidance counselor if ... on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... from the sea of words below, but neither of our applications included

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  seltzer and 2 flavors of kombucha. Wholesome. 8.02 (“Eight-oh-two”): the ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the ... like the rest of us. Gun control: the subject of a blog post I really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... -edged sword. One side of this sword is that the large scope of courses you can ... constraints. The flexibility of course choice regarding your major, minor, or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... in the online application (like photos of inventions/creations, extra

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

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput ... that shuttle the tray through a battery of tests (pictures below!) Out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  home countries of rock bands the Scorpions ("Rock You Like a Hurricane ... 'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... decision. We make no distinction between the importance of SATI (or TOEFL ... significant amount of time. How would only three activities look to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005