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• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  undergrad, and your undergrad school will change you, whether for better or ... -year-old undergrad applicant and me as a 21-year-old grad school ... education at MIT. I'm smart, okay, but I'm not, and never have been, one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or maybe you'll be watching something on television, or Weird Al's White and ... your parents having frank and open discussions of your future and college

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... roundabout way, and the third I approached awkwardly when everyone had already ... ?" "Yeah, sure." Liz and I filled out our rooming forms together -- single

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  policy development and institutions, and reviews normative and empirical ... come up with 179 results, and I've since filtered that list down to just ... select "easy" classes, and I think classes are easier when you are

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also ... (only $15 for a 1-year subscription, and cars typically hire for $12/hour

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  me unable to do much more than mumble incoherently, sleep, and chug ... and feeling woozy, and fell asleep for about 14 hours. Upon waking, I began to sacrificially prepare myself for a massive MATLAB lab and a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  ), 15% Hispanic, 10% African-American, 1% Native American, and 9% International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources ... rate that is much, much higher than many select private schools, and even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  .) The reception was held in the Boston State Room, and it was pretty ... last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  (and if you have decided to come, please do send it in!), we will reply ... , and to await the Next Big Mailing (NBM) in May. 2. Yes, I will be ... event at the American Regions Math League (ARML) at the Penn State site

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational Counselors (ECs) before the Central Meeting. The Tampa ECs and I dining at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  I said then, ...FIRST (which stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and ... inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  being this tired and this hosed and this abandoned by institutional ... I failed an [annotation note="probability and random variables"]18 ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment. Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  games when they are growing up, like playing house and things like that ... .'" -Professor Margery Resnick, Professor in Foreign Language and Literature ... , hahaha) we had our final session for our tenure as Burchard Scholars, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  semesters, and are doing that this semester (more on this in the next blog ... , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so ... are lots of cool things on campus during IAP that Danny would do, and 2

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  about MIT, life, the universe, and other super specific things, like grass allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way ... roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  love University of Oregon Football, and I can cook pretty much anything ... responsibilities in the Admissions office and my assumption of said responsibilities ... 've been cataloging and evaluating these tactics and I've come to a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and useful, and I know Paul '12 and Hamsika '13 are excited for it. RA ... the news on the official and unofficial pages. Debate fans: The MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and ... require frequent missions to deliver fuel, food, and spare parts. Two MIT ... mind is on the eighth dimension MIT Mathematics Professor David Vogan and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... My room's dark, it's late Monday night, and the January respite from ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006