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• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We ... link to a given user's interests in academics as designated in his

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  that story all over again. I thought getting my bachelor's degree would be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  internship program since my sophomore year of high school. I had always wanted ... what I spent my high school summers mostly doing. So at the end of my ... barely). I got recommendations from two of my high school teachers, since I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  taken their school's science club to nationals. And I've never done any of ... anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  Ok. Well, I've been kind of busy these days. Taking 5 classes (2 CIs ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... relationship with schooling as “unconventional” nor do I think of myself as an ... saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  interesti – Money? Money! They're offering money!" and then I sort of ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Many of my readers know by now that if you ... concentration of them centered around 77 Massachusetts Avenue. Well, sometimes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to ... sorts of goings-on beforehand on the 3rd floor of building 35. What's on the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  with a degree. There are also a number of subquests for the main quest ... , sleep (pick two). Right now I have all three - a wonderful group of friends I hang out with regularly, decent grades, and 8+ hours of sleep per

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I ... of this afternoon and evening sitting around the lounge, eating pizza, watching DVDs, and generally bemoaning the fact that school has, in fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  to MIT than its rigor. MIT, yes, is one of the most difficult schools ... nerdy...? I don't want to go to school with a bunch of nerds. I guess if ... Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Playsentations, the final Toy Design hoorah where all of the groups present their ... . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... quantity). -What activities do you do outside of school? Why do you do them ... student there. Why did he/she choose MIT over all of the other schools that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  and 8 hours at home, a 4-0-8 scheme. Lab/design/field work classes have ... 3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  receive a Masters degree in some area of engineering combined with an MBA from the Sloan School of Management. My group discussed everything from ... distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  consists of lectures, readings, and labs, designed to equip trainees with the ... of cool things: one of my floormates is studying abroad in Madrid ... be interesting. I'll be taking the EMT class offered by MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010