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• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  of MIT's externship program, I spent IAP working at Monster (the job ... characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  , polarization). Of course, at the time I'd only had up to 8.03 and was attempting ... What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  . My flight was the red-eye out of SFO on Friday night at 10:20 PM, and ... -In. Finally, I was at the head of the line. Time check. 9:20 PM. I had an hour ... you’ll never get service at all. I managed to get closer to one of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... new and more prominent links to relevant FAQs throughout the application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  -hi-uh" -- Adam always makes fun of my *nonexistent* accent after I've been at home ... -related stuff while at home, and I'm not just talking about the education I always ... night was the annual MIT Club of Central Ohio holiday get-together, where

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  out, too. Carly wrote, "I'm kind of worried about the food situation at ... -a-week plan like many of my friends at other colleges, which allowed me to 1 ... MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Here are some of yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience, including two publications and three glowing letters of recommendation. Of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  section of my analysis. In the plot below, I looked at the percentage point ... Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  kind of took it for granted at home. You know what? I actually thought ... to volunteer at an orphanage and cancer centers in Mexico City. Of ... all about The Month of March. Not that it's over. But it's pretty much

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7 ... first national title since 1974 by upsetting the U.S. Naval Academy at the ... yesterday's math competition win by MIT was unsurprising to some of you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  ; A fountain at the entrance of the Watergate building, my first day at ... Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  . I still cringed at Mufasa’s death, and by the end of the second volume ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• 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 / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I ... . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... ." Each presentation was seven minutes long followed by four minutes of Q

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  available at the rink. Fitness For Life This class is comprised of aerobic ... test certificate at the first class. Squash Introduction of the basic ... 's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  other relatives that all decided to meet up at the same time. One of the ... just ended up trying on weird outfits at the behest of the employees. I ... simultaneously begging for mercy, I had to intervene at times for the sake of my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  ” the same as “poor time management” is that, at the end of the day, we ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017