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• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  you what a relief it is to be where we are. [read more] Ben takes on ... is very self-selecting in that regard. It's who you are that really ... Regular Action decisions are released. "The Beard, The Name, The Response

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my ... frat parties, which is ridiculous since frats are too trashy to mandate ... 't even tell you the number of times i've made a series of Bad Decisions

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  great to see everyone/everything again. Being in Shanghai really made me ... when you have an arm, the motors you’re controlling are the joints of the robotic arm, so you have to do way more math to figure out where the tip of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  students are learning, testing, and inventing.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  thing that happened this week: the garment district had a "students free friday," where i found a free cashmere sweater in my size :) the garment ... ") with a section where clothes are sold by the pound, but on friday they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  from the games, which the Gamemasters have so graciously made public. In ... 1: Hide and Seek Rules You are the player. You choose a place to ... people that hide where you seek) - 0.999(the number of people that seek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  how wonderful and validating my friendships are. We made a nacho table ... are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  peers, it seems like "post-college plans" are a dreaded can of worms that ... through it, we are necessarily confronted with the fact that crap, there is still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  The expectations for second semester seniors are high. By then, you ... prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... Senior Thesis are surprisingly flexible. It can be as short as fifteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  class (the lecturers are especially good Spring semester). Manage to stay ... during the long waits experiments inevitably require are the keys to having ... Finally some free time--it's one of those annoying/convenient half

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are aware, the racial tensions in America are currently at an all-time high ... ?" "Are you okay?" "What is the point? Nothing is going to change." "You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  History of New York City (21H.235). That's where all the things are coming ... experiment. How do we perceive emotion? The faces pictured below are either Angry, Fearful, Disgusted, Happy, Neutral, Sad, or Surprised. Two are used

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  are some of the more common ones: Are MIT classes ridiculously hard ... office hours are more or less lifesavers. What exactly happens at CPW? The better question might be what doesn't happen? Sleep doesn't happen, food-that's-not-free

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of ... "]UROP[/annotation] meeting where all you have to say is that you haven’t done anything this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  parts of the design are raster prints (basically tracing the design into the material) and really thin lines, which are the parts that should be ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] a design I made after orientation for another visit

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and wine! eek, free wine!) and staying in a classy hotel on Sunset Boulevard. And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  in the beginning, whether you want to admit it or not. Some people are ... acquaintances when HUNDREDS of froshies are running around, trying to do precisely ... upperclassmen are up and about on campus, trying to meet all of you and hear your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning ... news: we are starting to seriously roll out CP✱ activities, so make sure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts ... 's ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, rock band, dance parties, and more ... free-on-a-saturday-night-from-7:30-9:00 enough?" Well dear prefrosh, it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010