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• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  with US/Canada admissions officers who work with international ... financial aid list [XLS] [PDF]. OACAC's Doug Thompson works hard to regularly ... financial aid to students who are not US citizens or permanent residents. As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... B. But the cool thing was that I was happy with that. I had worked my tail end off for those C's in a way that I'd never worked for my A's in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... , April 7 Working the registration desk again from 9:00AM - 12:00PM. Then ... Water War & Bouncy Ball Drop is not to be missed, and Resonance is rocking

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design ... the program, the team tried a novel intake design, but they were not quite experienced enough in the manufacturing process yet so it did not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  students who did their undergraduate work at MIT (and has a different ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... interviewed. It's not true that only the EECS department allows MIT students to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... Sciences department instead. (There are not so many good pictures on that ... often based on tests and written work (although some classes give problem

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work ... to marry than 7.31. Prospectives, thankfully, are not quite so boring ... the food must not be that bad.)   Sit in Killian Court

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ’s episode of [annotation note="censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not ... all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot ... ’re not used to not seeing the sun every day (yes looking at you tropical

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because ... undergraduate too, for that matter) I studied social media. I worked at the MIT ... was working on my thesis I put out a call for a UROP to help me collect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus ... free time at work, because you can break away from it immediately when new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  for now, I’m not too worried about that inevitability. Some things have changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that ... programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  substitutions to some songs not on Spotify. Stats This is my 173rd post, so ... most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is ... and Everglow also form part of my favorites. Then again, I'm not sure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  . However, there are operations that simply do not work well, such as 2 + 4 ... the iPhone. It’s a design decision that did not have to happen but works ... brainstorming: First, we design how this calculator is going to work, Then

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  one of few places he was interested in, although he admits to not ... . Reflecting on this difficult choice, he said that on some days he wondered, not ... he says it’s harder to work on them in the city, and lately, his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  gentrification, with many working-class sf residents being priced out of the ... disoriented and appeared to not be having a good time in general - for instance ... when the man said you a n*****, i was disturbed, not because i felt

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  descriptions of how his life and the surrealist movement are shown in the works ... that it is just...pretty? It's not didactic, it's not "intellectual ... times in different lightings, trying to perfect how light works on the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a LOLCODE-to-Python interpreter (when I'm motivated to do so/not hosed), and ... visualize how brainf*** code works. Because of its small character

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  Nero. My internship was remote, so I often worked at Caffe Nero and did ... normal people stores [...] without the anime girl on it" and are "not just ... could not stop thinking about mango orange body pillows for the rest of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just ... some part of that context is not shared etc. etc.… But what I'd rather ... semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019