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• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in ... application season is a stressful and busy time for applicants and that

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... out. Lydia's is one such post that is worth a read. I've collected a few ... -eyed David duKor-Jackson, March 13, 2012: To whom much is given... Lydia K

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many ... 't think there's too much of a bias toward births on different dates, so ... that one in. So the answer is something close to 1/370.86 * 1/12ish

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  -US grading systems. In fact, your system (O/A Levels) is probably the grading ... it is! I have a number of friends who are enrolled in some aspect of ... than 700 [CDS]. In the end, it is being a good fit & match with MIT that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... name, but Norbert is just a cool name as it is). One thing I didn

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  about as much work, but it would be harder to do in a culture where that ... . “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  bunch of papers in a short period of time is just an intimidatingly large ... credit for free every year, and each page is 10 cents. we can refill it if ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  and the sushi rice in a bed at the bottom. I personally feel this is a ... in order to qualify to take the second exam (which is often much more ... most curious is how they even conceived the idea in the first place. 83

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  be true) that the typical MIT student is one who has a passion in ... the right answer is, but I'll have a thoughtful student be in touch with ... The fourth in a series... With a week until the May 1st postmark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... . Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually the piper must be paid. 2. It ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  note="the ethernet cable she uses is run through a small hole in the floor because our router is in the basement. i wonder if i should do the ... advance them at a snail's pace. i made a point last fall in only bringing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  ? Put it in a category of how much I want it. For ex: "Really want ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how ... create is a self check-in of: would I be willing to put in the work or do I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  played a hand in the design of the ring, though! In fact, it truly is a ... RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass Rat for their class.  If you don’t already know, the Brass Rat is a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... ) Playing the organ in Kresge Auditorium This is not a performance class, but ... classroom) and a double French, which is the one we were playing with in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... , compassionate human being who plays well in the sandbox with others and is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  think it's done some good in the world, too, no matter how tiny it is. You ... cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  , Dr. Berkowski, is fantastic. The other day in lecture she put up the ... in 10-250 are, indeed, purple). "I'm a HORRIBLE singer!" she protested ... about two weeks like it sometimes always is: time for Q and A! Anonymous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... cost and cycle time.  If the costs in a field have come down recently, or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ). Walk in with a smile plastered on, and ensure that your voice is ... , encapsulates much of my experience of being a woman in STEM in my rural Arkansas ... piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague relation

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I ... button up this coat. The responses came in! "Rona just add a zipper ... coat outside in the process, to create a collar). then the buttonholes on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021