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• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  this out and move on. Last IAP I spent almost all of the month working on ... to be on campus, but not have any formalized activities taking up all ... the work that good teachers must put into their preparations, because I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No ... likes to admit people, not cardboard cutouts. Q. I heard MIT is super ... 's normal (and expected) that students will work together in groups to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... figure out how they work best. For me, coffee shops work quite well, for ... even if I were not admitted to MIT. I'd still like to read and receive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work ... several people. At least I know that I’m not alone. tick I’m fucking ... acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  't work out for me. I still regret not exploring more opportunities within ... wardrobe and this has not changed for the past two years. You get tired of ... because of last year's internship at PlayStation, I have still not acquired

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  working like new anyway...and then I did not attempt to install Ubuntu on it ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I ... which was cool because I was not about to use Windows 8. We had some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight ... physics class and gives it a uniquely MIT twist called TEAL, which works for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking either. i am just saying this because i do not want anyone to worry). however, the boy started feeling bad. it was tired from working too hard

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental material unless the application did not sufficiently show who you are. I hope ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work ... good. but maybe it would've been better if i spent that time working on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  contact hours. Course work at Cambridge revolves around supervisions. Each supervision is paired with some form of work. This work could consist of an ... the work and hand it in 24 hours before the supervision so that they

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  start on the construction after finals week, for fear of not getting anything else done. But, of course, as soon as classes ended I set to work ... working off of pictures, designs of smaller cameras, and anything else I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  . So, no, it does not matter that your work is incomplete. Harish wrote ... consider that. As for your independent thoughts -- it's not going to work ... optional essay. Rushil wrote, "Does it matter that my research is not fully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  that Pass/No Record does not mean that you can just sit around and have ... although I worked harder than I ever had before and felt like I learned as ... really does not like me.  But I'm done with math and science general

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  to work on them. And then I was out the whole weekend, from Friday ... spent. That after this streak of work, I’m going to crash. You hate your ... semester to say. Here’s At Least I’m Not as Sad (As I Used to Be) from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  than I asked for. However, looking back, I could not be happier that I ... was to teach you how to write proofs and not necessarily focus on the ... class a tad bit overconfident and not as concerned that the class would be

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  work for a college which had legacy admission because I am not interested ... Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . You get judged not only on how many points your robot scores during the ... contribute? Were your mentors appropriately involved (i.e., guiding, but not doing)? And so the winning teams are not necessarily the ones that have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the ... , going somewhere away from home so that I could not go home to do laundry ... didn't know anyone who had been accepted I did not really know who went

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  lunch. It's not the best lunch, but it's what works. Then I go to class ... you just miss East Campus?" "Maybe? But it's not as if East Campus is ... notebook, and she greets me good morning too. I work on a problem set for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020