Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to ... request a fee waiver? Your decision to request a fee waiver is not unlike ... held to the highest of ethical standards. Just as we expect you to not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  certain nights, and just generally not getting enough sleep. Also, the ... I have a PC. But I use a Mac at work and I'm slowly falling more and more in love with them and more and more out of the not-love I'm in with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  due to excess carotene. So, I'm not Jewish. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But no, really, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little bit ... me, but I'm actually not Jewish." Hillel: "Oh, okay. *click*" Ha! That

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  the admissions page last night. Which means not only has it been too ... whether or not to apply to MIT, or whether or not to come to MIT after you ... . Nothing makes being a starry-eyed nervous prefrosh who's not sure what she

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... education at MIT. I'm smart, okay, but I'm not, and never have been, one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  years, and why bother to care about something that's not going to affect ... their "community" and not simply their school, not a place they're merely ... of time thinking about and working on things that will impact future

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  . At least not at first. Instead, what's there is this:   So ... such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... selling wine without bottles. This post, however, is not about whether one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight."  2. n ... saying goes. The firehose is the constant barrage of work everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  moment was the dark night of my soul. While working those two jobs, I ... do at work, the kitchen chef said that after they closed, I could take ... : Get to work Check in with the director. Check in with co

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... - and learning about how they work is important! 7.013 (Intro to Biology ... of the reasons I'm not really broken up about not getting into one of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... ). UROPs The MIT UROP program is... awesome! As long as you work with an MIT ... 't. I’ve mainly worked on the first of these so far, and already learned

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... whine and complain about all the work I've already had to do, but that ... 're covering than I was just a few weeks ago. I spent over 12 hours working on my

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here ... 'm not the first, so I've been able to learn from his mistakes. Carl often ... talked about were his discoveries. This was work that other scientists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  peer pressure (far more effective is to have people work alone and then ... course. But just being aware of the perils of group work made a large ... honest criticism when someone thinks your work is shoddy.  Don't settle for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to ... of my dorm, Baker House. 4) while working a shift at Baker desk and I ... sit at my desk and not bother anyone while doing homework. One day, our

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  's efforts at encouraging collaboration by plowing through the work. This wasn ... hose is still hosing. Same deal: 100 words or less! Not including ... 's not just straight memorization, but about applying central concepts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  thing about MIT, #262, is that you quickly learn to not take surveys ... life. If I'm not mistaken, there was a 3.091 class survey last year that ... work, went home, did work, went to my Black Studies class and talked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that. I think of my "list of potential blog entries" as a stack, not a queue ... work per week, be that in the classroom, in lab, or at home. In practice

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  sonatas sound remarkably like Joplin (Scott, not Janis), which just sounds ... working in their music department. Dr. Cutter also teaches at the Boston ... 30-ish member more exclusive group focusing on smaller-scale works

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  professionals and professors say once you get there :) -and- That will not ... stuff) to more advanced theoretical work for those with the requisite ... undergraduates (which is not the norm for high-quality research institutions

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013