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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... student here, learning how to think is still the most important thing anyone ... sheet or a textbook isn't going to help you much, since tests are timed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  evenings before. You see - the walk down West Campus’s dorm row is a (weather ... change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a ... saw: Sometimes, a paintbrush sounds so much more attractive than a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  , probably as a separate post because of how much attention it deserves] I don ... potential new ways of analyzing how in-context information is used by a model ... artistic experiences. I have a much better model of what it means to be a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  . What I will discuss is how the current dining system at MIT operates ... Dining Membership House Dining Membership (HDM) is about as close to a ... how much money you're spending on food. You also won't be tempted to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... sentimental farewell to our five graduating seniors (this is in a 17-person a ... . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree. there's so much going on that it's exhausting and stifling. "being a MIT ... these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical ... final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play ... Orian in a previous round: And here is a picture of the top 4 winners

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  advice is to ask colleges directly how much weight they place on ... college admissions-themed issue -- it is also worth a read. Here's the TIME ... rules in US college admissions. While some people think this is a bad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12 ... may seem a bit daunting, but don’t worry! There is a solution: the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... automatically score them? How can we organize and visualize data in a way that ... edX problems sets and exams? And my personal favorite as a student: how

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  - who was a much less-assuming but still a pain - that is no longer the ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and ... morning with a coffee! After that, I'm pretty much snacking on hi-chew for

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  parameters weighed against each other? (by the way, my GPA is a 2.71; how badly ... ? and how much is college going to cost me?(approx?)(international student ... 'm learning how to play a few musical instruments..but my course is not complete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  have been, especially considering how much sleep I had gotten, I felt ... so far out of hand. So is there a moral to this story? Yes. If I threw ... agree that, if anything, this is a cautionary tale. If not for any of you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... , Princeton is a city, but to the rest of the world, Princeton is a college. So ... summer is very different from MIT during the school year. CPW rocks. A lot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... get placed into the recitation sections you want! No matter how you achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  ???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior ... , but it is actually uncanny how déjà vu senior year of college feels. It ... applications! Being a senior, whether in high school or college, is just really

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  how i would have to smash my foot into the ground a thousand times more ... -fashioned planning and scheduling, a lot of b2b software is painful to use and requires ... where we want to be. R: Which is? Where do you want to be? B: Taking it a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  Internet for you to explore. My favorite source is A Year of Slow Cooking. A ... who is shop trained and take them down to the wood shop) and check out a ... confident with a saw you should probably ask an adult (or someone who is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times. The artist represented most is fun., which again shouldn't be a surprise

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  distribution of hours, to give you a sense of how you will be spending your time ... , processors, and a basic operating system. By showing you how to take some small ... Worse-Is-Better is a better development philosophy than Do

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008