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• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  with my friends this summer dozens of times. ... School starts in 21 ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... YOU really want. I went to an art and design high school initially on my Algebra 2 teacher’s recommendation. It was simply a better school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  I'm fairly sure all of you are familiar with the fact that MIT has ... Institute of Technology......) But one of the largest challenges, at least for ... psetted, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Guitar Hero on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... 'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT, take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  here, with an intended audience of high school students. (Feel free to ... 18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  ![/caption]     An Evening with Champions The second week of school, I ... " align="alignnone" width="1000"] A most stunning sunset of Dorm Row my ... you may undergo a process of re-adjustment in your place of origin

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  ; seal of approval from an Actual High School Senior ™   4. Shirley ... year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of ... mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic ... river played guess-the-summer-camp with all the high school students on ... , i see you MOSTEC...) driven a zipcar full of friends out to westford

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio, which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We ... person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received ... the following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau ... make me a little bit uncomfortable. Now, TBP isn't anything like one of ... reactor. Of course, I'm totally forbidden to tell you anything about what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... Doctor (resident), engineer for Sony Consumer Electronics, medical school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  to win some. When I was in my last year of high school, I was pretty ... applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to ... -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Note-Taking in its Many Forms

  

  -little sleep, the friction and rhythm of pencil on paper helps me keep my eyes ... . Outside of working through practice problems and exams, note ... look back on my notes. Almost all of my exam studying consists of writing

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 13, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008