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• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student ... by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I hadn’t been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half ... sort of conflicted about whether or not I should do it anyway, because I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50" 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers ... mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what

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

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... chatter of sixteen Toons; afternoons working on group projects; evenings of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... be really awful and lonely, and maybe you spent lots of time just

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... 's lectures were divided between two professors, both of whom I enjoyed. Once

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... requirement. Our professor, David Pesetsky, is pretty awesome. The majority of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... RING PREMIERE. 3) Three of our Theta freshmen discovered gchat emoticons

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  Hello MIT Class of 2013! Here are some things that admitted students ... . Here it is: MIT Class of 2013. (...and international students can join ... of you are eagarly awaiting finanial aid information... don't despair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more ... unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals, have come from the "pirate sports" of rowing, sailing, fencing and rifle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever ... halfway through, I was kind of tired and really looking forward to that ice

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008