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Blog / MIT Life
Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!
I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... staff in Anaikatti, I also got a chance to interact with some of the ... complete their homework and excel in their classes. I visited two of the -
Blog / MIT Life
Finals Week It's the final countdown.
. But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals week for the fall semester. Here's how the bloggers (most of whom have ... for tomorrow - same place, same time. Best moment of the day: 8:00 AM -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service
President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of recruiting new pledges and helping them go through the process of becoming Brothers in the fraternity. Xavier was one of my pledges, and he was really -
Blog / Challenges
short term / long term on growth and learning
exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel ... how to learn I'm the kind of person that can't learn things on my own ... kind favor of mailing me the book "Make It Stick" after reading about my -
Blog / MIT Life
Uh-oh Spaghetti-O
"convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool ... that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the ... of the doubt and say that it was some other anonymous troll who was -
Blog / Academics & Research
Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.
, some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of -
Blog / MIT Life
classes are over!!!! i feel so free
Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a senior, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. So, after my ... unpleasant, and there are many thoughts and feelings I have about the end of -
Blog / MIT Life
Accidents Happen My mom was right.
something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental ... maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And -
FAQ / First-year application
Do students apply to a specific major?
apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!
many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob ... time Halloween themed! Here's the gist of it: If years of Halloween ... location of where in the park we will be dancing, merely go to this map: http -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)
a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center ... more of a certainty each day. Sometimes I want to find the living -
Blog / Academics & Research
Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…
Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on ... I really, really want to take each of the classes I'm signed up for -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.
really impressed by the skating prowess of Grant '08, who is from Laguna ... hockey. 4. Through Dr. Bill Cutter, director of the MIT Concert Choir, I scored free tickets to the Boston Lyric Opera's production of Lucie de -
Blog / Academics & Research
what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)
that i took ~15 flights, most of them crossing the Pacific ocean, with ... , the point is that I seem to be catching some of my bad luck again (my ... requirements according to the structure of their pre-determined major. MIT has a -
Blog / Academics & Research
“Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright
. Apparently, a local radio station was holding an end-of-summer concert at the ... unparalleled dose of relaxation. Before we knew it, we arrived @ the Hatch ... . Amen to "Time enjoyed is not time wasted". -- While on the note of -
Blog / Internships & Externships
My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row
mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn ... students are even given the day off of classes to go. I had prepared the -
Blog / Challenges
on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers
in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... relate back to the big question of what I want out of life. There are three ... post can guide your own thoughts, the beginnings of a framework for you -
Blog / Admissions
The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.
different parts of your application. On your MyMIT site, you will find the ... with each recommendation letter. You will submit your part of the ... note that MIT is not a member of the Common Application. MIT has its own -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
[Guest Post] 202.9 (slightly cursed) Tims from the Class of ‘29 by Joy X. '29
I was bored, so I made 202.9 Tim ideas suggested by the Class of ‘29 Discord Server! I was originally going to draw 2029 Tims for the class of 2029, but I ran out of time. Maybe that will come in the future. Anyway