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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  'll miss my friends in Association of Taiwanese Students and brothers at Zeta ... trader at Lehman Brothers. Favorite class at MIT: 18.440: Probability and ... where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  , but at least like in real war, there will be a period of peace ... instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT ... know to join the team, too, at least for the summer. The company is ... of use. Click here or on their logo below to see the demo... I thought

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... . Maybe I wanted to assert my burgeoning sense of adulthood at a time when ... I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  . The midterms happen at the end of a month. The final is only called a final because it's at the end of the semester, it's not "cumulative" in ... . Exams thus happen at around the end of every "month". These tend to line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a ... math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  email a scanned PDF of the missing document to admissions [at] mit [dot ... Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the iHouse International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend ... from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me most about MIT were MIT Finals. I've already been through one round of ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... everything else guys. I wondered why everyone was so proud of their study

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... ), CSC (Chinese Students Club), and ATS (Association of Taiwanese Students). There were tons of activities at this event, and unfortunately I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  't worry about it. Shaye: Really? Wouldn't Bryan be mad at us? Yuan: Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my ... -way ticket home. There was a semblance of relief, knowing that years of toiling away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing, and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  classes i’ve taken at mit - at the beginning of the semester i wrote code on ... -designed grading scheme of any assignment i’ve seen at mit, in the sense that the ... slower than the target runtime. at that point i ran out of ideas for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of ... UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors participate in at least one UROP during their undergraduate years!” Coming into

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  make a good blog entry.” Life at MIT does not make sense a lot of times ... friend of mine at Notre Dame didn’t believe me when I told him how hard our ... there comes a point at which you’ll realize that your little locus of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... to be looking at a plate of pickles to think about a plate of pickles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021