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• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... /or spouse away from MIT with the promise that she/he can return in the fall ... Cambridge! ------------------------------------- Can I fill in YES on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... individual to individual. If there's one thing that I think can be helpful, I ... BIGGEST PIECE OF ADVICE I CAN GIVE to anyone going to college, keep an OPEN

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be searched for key words so you can review concepts; you can repeat sections of

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  my major. Plus, you can't really beat the weather--I ran up what must ... presented to the US Department of Energy by our professor. How bad can that be ... MIT--you have to wait until you get into grad school before you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until ... , most anyone can figure out how to put one foot in front of the other, but ... you can graduate with an Aero/Astro degree from MIT :) (a typical

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  regardless of your high school preparation. You can also make life easier or ... requirements, you can take 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism) or 8.022 (Electricity ... …you’ll find a group of people where you’ll feel like you belong. If you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  hunt with Project Electric Mayhem (can you figure out the pop culture ... deliver the vision lecture. You can check out the progress of the different ... : As you can probably tell, I'm trying to finish up my PE requirement

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on ... the Pacific (for example…) The 8 P.E. point requirement can be ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... Bostonians. Basically you can get me to do anything if you tell me that people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  APPLICATION; WHO CARES ABOUT SQUASH SOUP RECIPES?! Well, uh, I can't help you there, but I can post some stereotypically MIT photos: In order for me ... 't harmful, we can live among you in peace" when just two days before he almost

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  admissions readers that we can't take a considerably larger number than we do ... this challenging school and become all that we hope you can, that you ... themselves, who can laugh at their mistakes and struggles, who seem comfortable

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  what they are. The full report (158 pages) can be read here. The summary of the report (only 11 pages) can be read here. I anticipate that ... helped design. You can read their story, as written by Jeff Roberts '01

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I ... -grain bread? $2 for frozen mango chunks? How can I resist?!" And then you bought like 40 things and you can barely even carry it home in their giant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  can read the transcript of the chat here. The Salt Lake City Central ... science. What can I do to show my stuff?" Well, there are a number of things ... always great -- use the web to get inspiration for a project that you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  mean, you can be short and blonde at the same time. You can be nearsighted and blue-eyed at the same time. You can also be an MIT student and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  and I can't complain about its proximity to campus. I will miss Next ... when you go to the doctor and magically feel better, and consequently can ... deduced that the problem lies in the wireless internet, so now I just can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  come grocery shopping? That way you can buy lots of big, bulky things and we can drive you back to your dorm with them. Oh, and we'll pay for it ... . Because then I can take pictures of it and show them to you. Yay.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father ... time. Sometimes it fails even more than that. Sometimes the scientist can ... reaction for the nth time because you just can't get it to work... well, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  of people and feel slightly less unnerved, but can't properly see the ... you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... the stages of mitosis when all you can remember is 8th grade geometry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  can be seen glancing around. The same image is shown on a 10’ black ... ) Arthur. ARTHUR: Yes, sir. PIERCE: (can barely contain himself) A talking ... "refined"... or as refined as a name for a pet human can sound. I call him

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006