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• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  future students of the Institute. If there is anything you would like to ... something. I love talking to you guys, and who knows maybe I will keep making ... the next part of my life and I will not forget my time at MIT! I love

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you'll hopefully have the time and energy to do so. Pre-orientation (I did Freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  're working on your first 18.02 pset. Okay, say you're me, and you're working on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at ... makes even a bit of sense, and throwing out various swear words every two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  that uncommon." "No, parents are going to read this and be all, 'Oh good, my little Johnny's gonna have calcium!' They have banana and chocolate and strawberry and coffee and... wait, I can look them all up." "Okay, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  inexpensive OLED displays, which offer highly dynamic and lifelike motion. That ... in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... as “squash and stretch” and “secondary motion” in the 30’s. Such

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  and extracurricular activities, I got involved within my school and my community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... know the answer to that question. All I know is that I'm here now, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  who has shopped for Consumer Electronics on Amazon and offers me deals ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  /explanation/clarification section which meets outside lecture, and often the person teaching the ... .60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a ... perspectives on the lecture material. (And, ahem, graduate students are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it ... ’- another frank excuse. I was taking discrete math and fundamentals of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are ... August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff ... applications, there much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or ... . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually ... new material between the last test and the final), meaning I had an 18

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  worse. States and schools shut down across the country. Federal “stay ... state with [annotation note="footnotes and words in italics are commentary ... content warning: this post is about covid-19, and the stress and

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  Practice, which offers real-world technology cases and projects from partner ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending Spring 2018 abroad, especially because Switzerland and chocolate. My

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  "scholastic" and "non-scholastic" distinctions. The questions read: List any scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate ... have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... Action to the MIT Class of 2030, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered admission to 655. Consistent with MIT’s educational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... to the MIT Class of 2028, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 661. Though they are all different in their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer ... elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  offers, and this year becomes the toughest year in our history. And so ... I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  probably majoring in 6-1 and 7 who lives in Next House – my wing is either 3W ... be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... Station, to take a Concord Coach Line bus across state boundaries to Salem

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023