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• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  ! How else can I help with your summer visit? For those of you who plan to ... visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  from the application; a separate sheet of paper is most common. In general, third recommendations from a teachers do not provide much ... recommendations I've seen have come from research mentors, youth group leaders

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? I. M. Pei, who graduated from the MIT school of architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I'm so tired." "Guys! We can get a great picture with the pyramid. Get in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting ... of Technology have developed a finder that can survey hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find that I had in fact already graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in ... taken, and my evolving road has left a record of all the things I ever

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture ... '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4 ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  across at MIT, but I suppose most anything can be defined as a "culture ... went for a walk around downtown Boston. I hadn't talked to my Dad in ... theater district, he called. I had to balance the cup on a concrete post for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... move in, and the way things could look a month or a year later. I was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a ... years. The idea for this map came out of me being sad that I don't have a ... their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  validation is both necessary and appropriate. Where I think the use of ... matriculate. You might say “David, thanks for stating the obvious!” Yet I ... become more awesome as a result of being admitted, but rather from what

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... . Last year I thought it was hilarious because each of my classes had a ... say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  right from freshman year, I came up with a plan to help me to stay calm ... became a tradition. Every equation sheet I've ever written for an exam at ... Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  an email from Marilee, asking me to post her first-ever blog entry. I ... After spending the weekend away from email & the blogs trying desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  kitchen where John Jackson had cooked for half a century suddenly went out ... , said he received a phone call from an alumnus telling him of Mr. Jackson ... course, if a woman had to leave the room, all the men rose from their seats

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  Being a student at MIT can sometimes feel like drinking from a fire ... the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  I've been blowing off for months from external vendors; test vendor ... ), which features "everything from web control, voice activation, and a ... to: Process a bunch of correspondence from applicants who have been

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  pass/fail instead of with a letter grade, you can use the additional ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we updated the admissions statistics page for this year's application cycle; we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007