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• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors ... offer that expert food, he or she is probably more than happy to talk to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... something totally out of the ordinary, something beyond the confines of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet, filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in ... A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I ripped out the carbon record of my experimental results and dashed out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... of ChatGPT would mean that all my efforts had been wasted. But AI ... work, I wouldn’t mind—I’d be amused, more than anything else. Of course

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... 'm Still Alive. Although I didn't actually type out many of my ideas, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field – and well, I have lots of respect for their work. I hope MIT’s 7

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... interdisciplinary work prepared by some of MIT's most noted energy professors detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• 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 ... rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience

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

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  to offer. And, of course, there's always Mystery Hunt to look forward ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... Cambridge anymore, Toto, when I - realizing that none of my relatives know

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

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012