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• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the ... "]headaches,[/annotation] but overall, I enjoy the satisfaction of cooking for myself when I have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... and putting fire engines on the top of buildings, and although all of those are kind of cool, they end up not knowing anything about the fine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... lot of the people watching his programs thought that HE was the one ... they would only have said if they thought that all of the discoveries he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  AP credit—the worst out of any school I researched when applying. If ... the APs mentioned above are the only ones that let you out of GIRs, and ... other side of the argument. If there is a subject you are really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can ... pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs ... 's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  high school students who are interested in MIT: The MIT TechFair THINK Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... seemed mapped out for me: follow the degree requirements for whatever bio ... was it really was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? ...Then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  might've had your mind blown. He's the type of Guido that made a ... constraints on the typology of human language. In particular, our latest project ... number of men ride horses at great speed and fire long-rifles into the air

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the ... do pick a lab at the beginning of the summer, my choices will basically

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics. Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the ... you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a ... I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  's your favorite part of your job?" President Hockfield: "You. The students ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the freshman year to make it easier to make the choice of major. It is diffucult

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... really fascinating history lesson on the life of Henry Moseley, juxtaposing an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of ... -Japan Program 2011 Internship: NAIST, Nara The project: After spending much of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... usually due around the third week of June. Late July -- Housing lottery ... % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... messy, so it was a little hard to take pictures of the steps along the way

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and having a dozen of my friends hype me up from the front rows made me perform

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don ... all about it, work with a room full of creative geniuses to craft the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... 've ever been to a physical therapist, you know the kind of discomfort I mean: the breaking apart of old adhesions that hurts even as it gives you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012