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• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  FIRST Championship. FIRST is a pretty cool organization, co-founded by MIT ... deadline for making your college decision. If your lingering issue is a ... , parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  photos ourselves in a darkroom. This is my first print - a shot of the ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... before hand. I'm as scheduled as I possibly can be (which is not a lot

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of ... Chemical Engineering, is our senior design class. We don’t have a thesis, we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful blog post, here is a collection of "activities" from this IAP, as told by ... little more food or food that is a little higher effort. It's also a fun

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

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or ... The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... a large vacation home located near a lake in the town. The owners of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some ... 's note:" so for the people that don't know, a vermonster is essentially a ... professor of Psychology at the other Cambridge school. A lot of events in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  Summer has [annotation note="in academic calendar only. it is ... ,206 (and counting!) memories in her Notes app, is interested in science communication so much that she was nerd-sniped by a WaPo article on fonts, and has

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  about stories like his in the mainstream media is a lesson in itself ... century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a ... Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  could try (and likely be unsuccessful in) compiling a list of activities ... the lands of Foxgrove on 3West (a wing in the dorm Next House). We ... with a friend in MacGregor. We started and completed two 1000+ puzzles

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  in other dorms are "crowded" into triples. This is generally not a good ... attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  , “Like is this a thing that happens in real life?” The photos of stock ... into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and ... other universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  unreasonable amounts of time on something is a classic IAP move. In IAP mindset ... January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... chemistry, physics, and English in four and a half hours. (oh, and write two ... backpack across Europe in 4 weeks, which is what one of my friends is doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  , the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow ... in the bottle on several occasions. Cambridge is more or less the ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  ) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan ... Business Schools. Dr. Aggarwal's expertise is in the areas of initial public ... and Journal of Portfolio Management. As a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  obvious, I love playing! Twice a week in Kresge Auditorium, however, I also get one more unexpected thing out of being in MITWE, and that is ... piece, you have a sheet of paper in front of you in black and white. You

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news ... from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit ... Nice was spend a night in our Pension Grillparzer-esque hostel, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  could. MIT has been a place where I fell down and did not know how I could ... today. I don't think this is true of MIT: I am not a fundamentally ... long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  how every single point was accounted for. Regrade requests: If a ... state it, but in the instructions it says that "a short computation" can ... story is pretty different for each type of assignment, as shown in the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020