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• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  week during freshman year, making $8.75 an hour to check out language ... to start reasoning from. Another important thing to remember is that ... during office hours or after class. So it is possible to get to know your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  colossal marble columns, no longer holding a tourist's guide to Boston, but ... . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  involved in me getting to the office. ~ And most importantly ~ - The first ... .310 (Chem Lab) lab report EVER. YAY. I was so happyy. - I went to my last orgo ... , and I'm still not done with work. - I went to get an eye exam at a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case someone from Spain is reading this, allow me to say that you have one ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  book, Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen ... stellar pool. The most important thing now is not to take this personally ... with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  from late May to early September. I'd estimate about twelve hours of ... to take on 15+ hours of lecture a week (although probably not attending ... six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... importantly, those hamster legs of mine feel well rested and ready to tackle my ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  important to communicate with them and make sure that we were on the same page ... athlete, so it definitely is important to maintain strong grades and also ... head to a 2-hour long [annotation note="East Asian Interest A Cappella

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  important to note that WE DON'T NEED EVERYONE FOR THE ENTIRE 24 HOURS. If you ... again. Had I not gone to Six Flags, I would have gone to see the "24-hour ... otherwise contribute to ** THE 24-HOUR SHOW ** a play in a day, produced by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  screening. "And I really like that." So it takes four hours to get from ... ! We were told that we would have two and a half hours to make the movie ... hour to film. We were then directed to Workshop 1, where we were given a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  ;Kicking Ass Serious Butt on the TI-83+L A Guide to Lists": turns out ... class numbers will seem pretty alien to you). There are some important ... . Not that you are somehow required to be involved with clubs and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  was awake. "Hey Boone, I went to office hours for ICE tonight." "Cool ... : Integrated Chemical Engineering 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch/Time to breathe 1:00 - 2 ... a couple of hours, and I found myself lying on the floor of the lounge

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to ... had disappeared. I was not about to take a 12 hour flight with no ... !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  nice to quantify this number. Somedays, the hours I would spend on zoom ... quite good. It's important to note that I only counted class time here, not recitations and office hours, which would add a crapton of hours to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I ... while if I had something else really important to do. So, in between ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  hour before practices?, the distance from Next House to campus and should ... don’t accidentally delete an important email while trying to filter out ... I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016