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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  for the day when he would not have to spent 2.5 hours [every day] of his ... have it, "the day" came on August 13th of 2010, and now that same (not as ... about keeping a car in the city and commuting to work this summer :) I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his ... that same (not as young) admissions officer has a significantly reduced ... work which only takes him about 25 minutes. Most days, you can catch him

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  note that MIT is not a member of the Common Application. MIT has its own ... previous years applied to MIT or started an application to MIT, you will not ... app works. ...I think that's it, for now, anyway. As the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and ... and music double major, class of 2013. When I'm not studying theoretical

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  falls before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not ... one. Requesting a fee waiver does not negatively impact your application ... community, consider sending in some of your work. If you are interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  not me, nor should you be! What I found worked for me may not be ideal ... if it's just not working for you. Although I'd recommend saving the ... a reason. Simply put, be yourself...not who you think some admissions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many ... waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot ... will receive a letter informing them that they will not get off the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  the most ergonomic work surface anyone's ever used. 2. The most exciting ... to Harvard Square for ice cream tonight. 3. I'm not feeling ... school. Grad school is about research, not grades, and is notoriously grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  do before Spring Break. Right now, I'm working on number 22: "Blog." And what am I doing for Spring Break? Well, I'm not heading east like ... there, we're driving not to my house, but to my grandmother's house in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics, volunteer work, music and theater performance, and religious activities ... high school and through the application process ethically (not lying or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  'm thinking why not just enter a PhD program off the bat? What I guess is nice ... people who have PhDs have when they enter the work force that they are ... on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  as just a lot of math, and not the friendly kind. Interestingly enough, a lot of the problems I worked on this week had real life applications ... students are way too theoretical. Here's my proof that we're not. A

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that I'm not ready to be leaving home; goodness, I've had two and a half ... to the post office, driving past my old school, seeing my dad at work

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a ... does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ... really want to be here.) 3) Is the list ranked? No, not in any way. 4) What

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  chunks do not come by with great regularity). Sometimes I get e-mails with ... just learned that my AP Calculus AB grade for my first semester is not a ... C+, because it motivated me to put in a bunch of work to fill in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  . Your Pass/No Record freshman fall grades are not predictors of future performance. Your first exam grades are not predictors of your performance in ... not think a low number means failure. It gets better after the GIRs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  semester, I'm not sure I want it to be this one. #2: 6.3900, Machine ... —honestly, I feel like I'm just not that interested in this side of computer ... how a language environment works. I just think it's so fascinating. This

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  future competitions and applications! Whether or not we compete in a sub ... general, so we are looking to expand as a whole. We’re also working on ... student or not!) feel free to send me an email at [email protected]! [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... cutting. In manual, you work with drill presses, band saws, other hands ... DO NOT put your hand inside the laser cutter. The second part of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  control, will work against my favor. All I can do is identify those factors ... to actually work on building up my skills in those things, since I was so focused on scolding myself for not knowing them in the first place

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021