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• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  immature and want to do it too, so you guys will just have 2 entries to read ... frantic searching for resources will be pretty common this weekend. Friday ... enjoyment. (And yes, if I spent 15 hours working on the puzzle, I was willing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  messaged Petey, “I am reluctant to write because I am afraid of what will ... year.)  [carousel image1="110371" image2="110372" image3="110370" /] In ... served. I can’t condense this shift—mine or campus’s—into a few sentences

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a teaching abroad program! All of my weekdays were spent teaching at local ... or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  available. ECs typically use the email address you provided on your ... waived, it will not put you at a disadvantage in the admissions process.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  best practices will guide us in the years to come. [carousel image1 ... should be very soon, at which point I will blog very loudly about it (hint ... history of Illuminations and how we hope it will serve our visitors

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  , whether I was teaching about global geology through soil painting, or ... ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  was already comfortably within their reach, or felt they did not possess ... high school. In fact I loved my high school. No matter where I went or ... than willing to spend a lunch period just going over hypothetical

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  scores, or leave the boxes blank?" Either way is fine. We will use the ... by January 1?" Your application will not be affected. We will have your ... (and other universities) I will have a problem of some sort? (VISA, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  I clicked on the Buzzfeed article about banana slicers or puppies with ... leaving things until the last minute, or a classic case of Murphy’s Law, but ... furious typing. At 1:54pm, I stood bleary eyed in the Maseeh Athena cluster

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  by semester or department and search for keywords. ((Side note: It's actually a pretty awesomely common phenomenon than an MIT student will just make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT ... before or since. I mean, that semester I'd think that I was ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  produce this list of all US schools that provide at least $1 million in financial aid to students who are not US citizens or permanent residents. As ... students come in with full scholarships from their countries or generous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  didn't get the email or lost it, let me know in the comments (leave your email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and ... know that some of you will be super-excited to learn that Hikaru Utada

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  subsequently find an online article, blog, or forum dedicated to the subject that will suggest further directions for investigation or provide an ... something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  papers, pieces of literature, or system specifications. Even though a lot ... or systems that use it. For instance, the second week, we focused on ... enough data to evaluate their feature sets, the authors generated their own

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... . [carousel image1="90701" image2="90700" image3="90699" /] Finally, Ikea ... in streams to the point where it reached #32 on the Billboard 100

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  ), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for ... would like to room with a female student, or is that a given." We will ... the new SAT, you say you'll address it after May 1st. Why the delay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  little patience or tolerance for anything that wasted his time. Whenever he ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... minority students relax? Will I be accepted if none of my clothes are from

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global ... other planet attack us and force us to come together as a global entity to

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006