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• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... me cringe, and this often works against me. I definitely didn’t shorten

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... including both 5.07 and 5.13, but there's no avoiding that.) Some of you have ... about my schedule. Let's talk about yours. And by "yours," I mean you. Yes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  Embry-Riddle and Gonzaga and Tulane and [YourState] University and ... universe has built up to critical mass I cry and scream into my pillow and ... with certainty is that about two and a half months from now, our nation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  years per graduate degree? More or Less? And how does MIT feel about ... state school and major in biology. Find a college that is a good match for ... readers: you'll learn to enjoy baseball and American football, really, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  , students from a number of states, including Wyoming and Nebraska, attended ... , Colorado, and New Mexico to talk about MIT with students, parents, and other ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  represented: Montana and New Mexico The most represented US state: California ... Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the ... , tried out for a cappella groups, played sports, and more. The formal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... instructive, that we often refer to universities as 'institutions.' Though that ... and mortar, institutions are customs and cultures, and this is how and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to write this entry, but I thought you guys deserved at least an update, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  years, and took part in the state championship this year as one of the top ... . 'I like to hang out with my friends,' he said. 'And I like going to the beach at night and looking at the stars.' [Cydney Scott / The Post] Corey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  encounter over the course of one semester at MIT. And lucky me; that week I had three exams: [annotation note="Language and Its Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics"]24.903[/annotation] on Tuesday, [annotation note

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and ... processed most December testing by now), and, if applicable, Interview Report ... system. If you had an interview more than two weeks ago and we haven't yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  state of business, stress, and exhaustion; swamped and overloaded with ... 2/19/2016 It's been 2.5 weeks since classes started, and I ... weekend already. But the weekend means having 3 psets and HASS reading due

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  ."]problem set classes and project classes.[/annotation] A problem set class has regular problem sets, possibly exams, and possibly a final project. A ... MIT's General Institute Requirements, the subjects that every MIT

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  decisions that year. The article states that "women and minority students may ... held virtually this year, and there's a large CPW Discord server where ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  information yet and I wanted to know before I decided." Anon, and everyone else ... university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs ... 't teach.) Many of MIT's teachers are truly excellent, some are good, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  't be lame and fake at said interview. 3. Get good scores on the SAT I and ... and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the ... and a 1/3 chance of no deaths. In this formulation most people prefer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  . Wednesday - school visits on Staten Island and then in East Brunswick, then Chili's (love Chili's!) and then later, the meeting for Central Jersey ... finally On friday I drove back to Massachusetts and slept until Sunday. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement ... ; (6) able to finish the graduate degree in a timely fashion; and (7) a ... Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  arts college, a large flagship state university, a couple of community ... Had my parked car crashed into Moved from Hawaii (and had movers break ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025