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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... 's true. Kunda Kapaipi asks: Hey. I'm a Zambian(southern Africa) and in the ... about whether or not that part about what you do in your free time was a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  before that) What should I do now? I recommend spending the next few weeks ... chances of admission. What other advice do you have? You should check in ... .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  delays, you should confirm your username and password well in advance. What ... username" or "lost password" link. What if I don't have a MyMIT account? If ... applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... research in Cambridge feels a lot more relaxed, and also because I ... [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist

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

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  certain that my teachers sent in my letters a while ago. Should I be worried ... response. What should I do now? Secondly, I finished my year 11 in Australia ... the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  had only a vague idea of what "API" meant and how I might go about using it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... . Not bad. If y'all have ideas about what I should do with this robot

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Check After brainstorming, I usually settle on a main idea and come in ... topic and come up with some key questions to focus in on before I do ... back in my Google search history to see what phrases I looked up to find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  should check your MyMIT account to see who your interviewer is and give him or her a call or write him or her an email. You should do this, not one ... tell us in the essays. Think about why you are applying to MIT. Do a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  institutional brand and our role in the popular imaginary. But, as a graduate of ... in Comparative Media Studies, class of 2013, whaddup), I'm always ... transforming our economy and society. Ethnography gives the people a voice in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  MIT bloggers are planning to participate. If you have a blog, you should ... . I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), it ... wanting to acknowledge it as a possibility) I know that a percentage of this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  , sunburn I did. Anyway. This entry is a PSA for the Overnight Program, in ... course 9, about what course 9 was all about; I talked with a lot (it seemed ... which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  willing to bet this is what happened in your case. Transfer Student had a ... was a student of Raffles for 4.25 years before I shifted to India and ... . Will I need to send in midyear grades? A final report card? Are you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of ... wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... canCheck up on people you haven't heard from in a whileDon't hold off

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  up for it, and I always left the Z in a better mood than when I entered ... . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... Experimentation I also shopped 21M.601 - Drawing for Designers for a couple weeks

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  without sauce). It may help to place the carrots in boiling water for a ... 've learned that I'm okay at biology, but yes, it does suck to be a premed at ... really smart and can stay on top of it =p). I know I complain a lot on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  pho establishment. Now, I've seen the Amish before (in Harrisburg), and I've seen people eating pho before (in Boston), but I have never seen ... . I know, it's a bold move for an inexperienced blogger like me, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends ... Hole, where I chilled in the corridor outside Black Hole lounge for a bit ... pieces than it was in before. I talked with friends (I forgot with whom

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  section late in the day, that last straggler at 4PM was a real drag. I ... ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who works as a director for a rather large freight railroad in the West. It

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  scared me so much I almost collapsed before her in a heap of apology. The ... you learned some of these? I now know how many hours are in a week and how many weeks are in a year I learned that MEAD envelopes with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight ... (a skill which i foolishly thought I possessed in great abundance prior ... upsetting me, too." "i def had a minor spiritual awakening in 4.605, as one

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019