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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  -. Since MIT doesn't count plusses or minuses in calculating your GPA ... DID YOU KNOW? Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer has been wanted by the US ... by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  'clock, you in?" "Hm, that's really tempting," I mused, "Very very tempting ... fashionable leather jacket and blue jeans (an outfit you'll find me in on a near ... you just can't figure out why nobody else is wearing pants either. If

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  always love being around people who love to create. So you can imagine my ... told that they will be up in the next few days on Fora.TV, and you should ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  acceptable to do that... In any case ~ I wish all of you the best with your ... have three finals spread out over the course of next week: 5.13 (orgo), 9 ... : Monday 9 am - 12 pm: 18.03 (Diff Eq) Monday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm: 5.13 (Orgo

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , etc. If you can smoothly work in some questions regarding our background ... who are nice in their correspondence. This is especially true if you are ... to clients. We call this the “grandmother test” – can you explain your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In ... revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... tidbits beyond my intro you should know that I can have entire conversations

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a ... doomsday devices)...so Chemcials + engineering...can you tell me what a real

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  less when you're out there in it. because that's really all any of us can ... undergraduates, whom we admitted, in the main, four years ago. In the intervening ... guides, and, in my case, the students who took my classes. We have had the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  have a blog where you can write about whatever you want?” (TNC himself is ... overestimate what we can do in a short period of time and underestimate what we can do in a long period of time. Here, he reminds us that a career is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  notice fashion in a way I never did before. I can tell you that in July in ... rack up homes, places you keep inside little rooms in your heart to come ... “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  , it helps develop so many soft skills that you can use in other class ... . No prior programming experience is required - yes, you can be a 6-3 without knowing anything coming in! You learn really basic things in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Hell, but you all bond in that mutual suffering." I can't tell you how ... midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you ... comfort. It is something that will really ground you in your time here at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  'aime and Oceans 13 for $3 each. The films are shown in one of the large ... At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  competition video here because a grainy 480x360 video can't do it justice - you ... statistic and you'll see that 8 of 9 MIT students didn't participate in FIRST ... can read this great article in Popular Mechanics about FIRST, this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... ), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... ), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the ... in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... Technique describes as a "collective photo blog" and which allows you to view

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... poop map! You can find my Poop Map here, hosted on Netlify. I didn ... . Through this map, you can click on the little poops to see people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  convention to be held in Florida in June. What do you do at MIT? Like I said ... who have come from a high school where they were always A1 -- you can be ... something you always hope you keep "doing", in your jobs and/or in your life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  there that is worth searching for, even if you can never quite apprehend ... audience and his far-flung fans. Maybe that was the case for you. It ... September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015