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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  enter a university, much less a Masters program? No worries! Now you can ... citizens? You can do that online even if you’re six years old. How is ... United Kingdom. Citizens inspired by OpenScience and iSpot can pursue their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  the bag. Ok, not really something you can bring, but be aware that you ... , but try bringing more than four changes of clothing. Things can get a ... talk to MIT faculty, students, and staff about potential things you can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... the best they can. In the underfunded schools students seem to be ... tell you what you can or cannot do. For me I honestly did not believe I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  classes can only be taken in either the fall or spring semester and if you don’t take them in sequence, it can throw your course roadmap out of ... they recognize that student life can be hectic and draining and are

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch ... honors. I find that all I can think of are skating-related. Great. This is ... can use on the test. At around midnight, I realize I need to somehow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  .R.U.E.® test. The thing about this test is that it takes four days, and you can't shower for those four days or the results can get altered. I'm on day three ... ; I don't even own a gold one. I still can't shower for another day

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  college, you can write whatever the heck you want." -The same wise person ... -college). I can deconstruct any bowl of ramen for you, and make a pretty nice ... use the restroom and I ended up falling asleep in the seat. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  manageable pieces.  Our first assignment is to build a "Mini Me" robot that can ... to claim "ownership" of ideas. As you can see from the propagation of ... fabrication techniques this can involve lots of milling and drilling precise

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  to be a professional clown? Absolutely not. But now you can say that ... and another school. The funny thing is I can’t seem to recall much from ... , professors and anything you can think of; we are more than happy to answer your

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  how materials function, and I feel like I can apply these to real life ... whatever advice I can to freshmen and try to make their time at MIT the best it can be! At the end of last semester, the advisor for our group and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most ... on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... , even the most excruciating failure can become a valuable asset.  I know

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  interview. More than anything, really, it helps us if you can come prepared to ... I interview, but I can't help you if you don't know what to talk about ... wonder where you ended up! :) 7. You can't fail! Honestly, other than this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  come to Meet the Bloggers so that you can meet us, the bloggers, and you should also come to Random Hall so that you can meet us, the Randomites ... weekend and I can give you a sticker, too. It can even have glitter on it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you ... immediately" or "I'm worried that not getting into MIT will mean that I can ... inside my imagination. - I'm not trying to belittle your fears. I can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  classes can't be special. My astrophysics class is, for example, very useful ... , which means that the sentence subject can acquire a lot of distance from the verb. Connecting verbs to subjects can get VERY confusing.) After

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  can effectively tack on $12 to the price of your restaurant meal. This ... 't cover. You can do better than that.  Cook for yourself, eat tastier (and ... 's pan (I prefer it to a regular frying pan because it's deeper and can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  January 1, meaning you can click "submit" on your application any ... from the applicant. January is the last testing date that can be seen ... that processing can take 2 weeks. You do not need to worry at this time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will ... opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do ... to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for

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

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  gyroscopes work (which I still don't - actually, but shhh, no one says you can ... 't slept, it can either stand for I Hate The Friggin Place, or I Have Truly ... focus now, when we are so close to graduating. I can't count how many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... so many I can't possibly do them all, in a day or a week or even this ... busiest vacations in my life -- if it can be called that -- which had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010