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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  they request recs from you. Of course the students will not be penalized ... write wonderful and heartfelt recs, who invest not the aforementioned few ... work. Enjoy these next few weeks and don't stress, my friends; mid

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  'm thinking of all the work I should be doing instead (which is something I ... 'll get there. In the meantime, I'm determined not to feel guilty if I need ... . Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  many bruises, and I'm not even kidding. One of the coolest things we ... like take classes. Not so at MIT, buddy! Just because I was exhausted and ... Works!" potato chips are amazing. And probably of the devil.  

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  week. They will not always be on Tuesday so that those of you who have ... of 75 C. Because I'm twelve (years old, not the course), I did enjoy ... working on my calves. I feel bad because they can only massage 25 students

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  -group, and the team working on the hack often included members of such groups ... : Coffeemate explosion (not really a hack but whatever) Date: Every year during ... Preview Weekend 2003 Group: Either WHO or cross-group, I'm not sure So yeah

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Thursday night was my first Central Meeting of the year. Not only did ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  be applying to graduate school this fall, I'm not entirely psyched ... research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the ... basketball. No, we do not cheer for the chess club, although we would cheer for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing ... should not be the primary way kids learn to write," said Wayne Camara, vice ... high score, it was not as significant as Dr. Perelman stated. Graders

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but ... chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not ... them. (And those are just the ones on my walk to work, and just the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  still about an hour per app, sometimes more. They tell me not to worry ... ? I love it out here. And it's not just about having nice things to look ... famous work) just might be my favorite place on earth - in the warmer

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  a few PE classes offered in person this fall, which I was NOT aware of ... ="which i'm also not very good at, but i love it so much that i can transcend ... /externship – 200% complete! Gonna give myself some extra credit here cause I worked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  to know you. Though the interview is optional, it is a great chance not ... interview. Our current process does not require you to do this. After you ... application. However, even though you do not need to initiate the email with

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... conundrum, has thrown me into some sort of spiral of "not being MIT enough ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  your algorithms statistical background to understand most not too niche ... , breaking them down, seeing where things fail and where they work, to develop ... physics at some point, even if I'm not a physics major. But I felt like

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  and not put my feet down. My friends worked at a pool, and I know that I ... swim test not being required. If you take the PE Courses of Fencing ... work as a Space Pirate in The Martian"]MIT Pirating Certificate

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  as a Course 6 student, 'lab' really means working on coding assignments, which I feel does not really match up with a person's image of a ... social media regulation. I am just as busy as I was last fall, if not more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the ... and unbothered. The sky that day was not in a hurry: the clouds drifted ... more aesthetics-driven. Not that it’s a bad thing or that aesthetics

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  realize that working code isn't enough. It's not acceptable to introduce ... . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I ... living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while.” Fiction

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  the parts of you that are not busy with eigenvalues and electron ... ’re not necessarily from my point of view, but are more like a kaleidoscope ... intensely unfair to my mom, to the childhood that she and my dad worked so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  videos: every YouTube choreography I've ever learned (not including K ... a story? how emotive is it? if not, is it hype enough? is the ... do not currently have? is it doable, given my...lacking flexibility and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021