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• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  in another five years.' In past years, the course has been offered ... , which means I've been halfway in school mode ever since. Alas. The rest ... SuperUROP. It's a busy semester, but I'm very excited by most of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  way to completely serious and intense offerings like the EMT training ... to offer. And, of course, there's always Mystery Hunt to look forward ... campus remains fairly busy. (Perhaps the fact that more people are sleeping

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  . Why would schools do this? For the money, mostly, because if you make ... “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the ... offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  generic meal plans like most other schools do, but instead have a sort of ... required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my friends at state school succintly describes her school's dining hall food as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  budget your time. In high school, although I could be out working on the ... the night before your exam [it's not high school anymore ;)]. MIT is ... in high school). It's all about budgeting your time and your priorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  if you are driving. I have been late to school on approximately 1 ... conform to the average pari-sneeze*** head tilt angle of 35.74 degrees, I ... .” Every sneeze is different. Degree of head or body tilt (before and during

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  in a place where to a degree the world comes to you and you can meet a ... get my degree and get out. I also wanted to learn how to make cool ... engineering was limited. I'd done some fun GFP experiments in high school

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  . Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design in apparel design. She has also researched ... Apprentice 4, who holds 3 MIT degrees. Check out the season finale Thursday at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about ... !   (2) Winter School More school!  But again, not your typical MIT class.  Run by MITOC, Winter School does have weekly lectures, but they

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What entrepreneurship programs are offered?

  Here are just a few of more than 85 resources dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT: Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation DesignX Martin…
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer club sports?

  There are more than 30 different club sports at MIT. Each club is either instructional or competition focused by nature. Many of the competition focused clubs have excelled at both regional and…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... Women's Initiative is to send MIT women to middle schools and high schools ... girls at these schools and encourage them to go into science and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  -epic REX disaster, I’ve decided to offer you people some advice for when your ... ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... some degree. There is nothing we can do to completely wrangle the world

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... gozaimashita." The woman hung up the phone. "Issyou ni ikimasyoo!" Her offer to ... name, so she offered to put it under her ID card - all approximately five

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  structure. We grew up knowing that 3rd grade came after 2nd, middle school ... scary is that? As much as our high-school selves may put "college" high up ... still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take on math and science because it was one of those all-girls schools. Yes

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  School of Business-Duke University. This just proves that learning is a ... academic school year and the possibility of a New England World Series ... . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I ... night and write my statement of purpose. (For grad school, you don't get ... you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  school (my graduating class: 65 students!), and managed to take all three of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few ... . From Kindergarten through 8th grade, I attended a small Catholic school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  twice (once to a law school, whose offer I declined, and once to CMS/W at ... a high school senior, I applied to ten schools. I was denied by seven (including my first choice, the only real school I was excited to attend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016