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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ’m not entirely convinced they were right. The problem with psets and labs ... . However, for the vast majority of you who will work in teams made of people ... work with people from diverse backgrounds and internationally. Many GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... if you're not sure you're going to go right away" (oops), we ate at The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because ... all of the freshmen here. Aw, why isn't anybody else excited? It's not ... I got in and am doing the work. As long as I try my hardest, work hard

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  catch up on work and sleep. And yet, there’s never really time for ... stressful and work-filled that you vow to never, ever procrastinate again. As a senior, I thought I had learned my lesson, and so I worked on Sunday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  , you know that didn’t work out. The Icebreaker and CPW Festival ... roommate Karlen, not pictured, and many others were poring over their psets ... MIT professors, TAs, dorms, dining, and random stuff. We also did work

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  've got a lot of work to do on their name Bryan: not quite hot as 007 Diana ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  level, salaries and working conditions are even more dismal. Students at ... getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... , here's what you're going to be working on.' Even if it's a really cool

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a ... supervisor during his masters research. Mr. Dweck worked under the supervision

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  pie had a hidden cost in the form of this rating inquisition. Not one to ... . More questions. “What?  How does that work?” I explained, “There are only ... . My argument was that any potential marginal differences were not

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  .   To no surprise, I'm not the only person who's experienced this. In ... then talking about something I’ve never heard about in high school Not ... -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  . this applies in sitautions like, not knowing the password to something, or not understanding how something works. but there's also unknown ... they're available to help the students who do run things. not only are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any ... application process, and believe that, as is true at some schools (but not us ... perfectly clear.']again,[/annotation] you will not be penalized or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a small number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... another place. If it is amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a small number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... another place. If it is amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have ... !). For those of you who are not as Potter-oriented, this hack is the scene ... officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  . Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2 ... , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... we will not be able to admit them to the Class of 2019. Turning away so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  can tell you - but college is not a destination. And more than halfway ... - but for what? Or work - in which specific industry? Gap year - will it ... feels like that's the MIT way. As if it's not one of those two options - I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  right path, sometimes things go awry.  I am not perfect and neither are my ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... prepare the student for admission to MIT. I will say that I did not

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  grades are very important, so keep working hard!) as well as a text box for ... application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your ... feel would be helpful to the committee. We do not expect or require any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  I'm BAaaaaaaCK! Classes are building up, students are working, halls ... couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career ... up to 9 months before you graduate. this also does not guarantee

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010