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• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note="The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge, and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even had their own specially designed buildings outside of the exhibition

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... , "by the time your roommate is out of grad school, you've been promoted

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... from him over the last 17 years. For those of you trying to figure out ... that the simple version is out of the way, it’s time to mention what he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break ... of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus ... Friday. Not "end of the week" Friday. This Friday by Rebecca Black. Like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn ... stood there in front of the mailbox, on the street, screaming my head off. Then I did a victory dance. (Scared the crap out of my dog, too.) When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  , Jenga-ed into the trunk of my roommate's parents’ car. The morning of ... , rearranged the two sets of closet/bed/desk, and halfheartedly unpacked t-shirts before going out for Korean food with friends. Immediately, the rush of MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of ... are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... to hold on. You can jog on the side of the train and still be quite

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two ... fall in love?! :P ps. Just in case you were confused, some of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... kind of unorthodox. Back during the application season, I was pretty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour ... . Ah, bless the liberation of burnout-born apathy! So I left it half done ... writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... a language barrier, one of the largest challenges in teaching is

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  the same guidelines. Ultimately, we do not admit anyone until all of the ... in the background [of the stack of applications]." I need my music ... applications for most of the rest of the day, listening to my new music. Tomorrow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of ... DID YOU KNOW? According to America's Test Kitchen, the best possible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... class at The Ohio State University and I am one of three females in a ... , only a quarter of the math department are women. … I do not get credit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... R. ‘15 lives in Simmons. Her major is a unique combination of the ... previously appeared on the blogs to talk about stories in the age of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of ... communities. Between the four villages, we got a pretty good idea of the needs of the urban and rural villages. When we weren’t working with GK, we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010