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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert ... (oddly) comforting to note that tuition for international students at ... for a non UK student to attend Cambridge for any less as a regular

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your ... 's a twisted exercise to ultimately grade a person on one's mastery of ... Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  . Every day, I've tried to do one nice, unexpected thing for someone. I ... Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... goes by so quickly. However, I've felt inspired to maximize my remaining

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  them on again for the holidays! Pay them handsomely to be "on call" at ... ."   Keep your Arrival and Departure monitors up to date, for obvious ... to board planes. For instance: let them update a (probably separate

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  scholarships for everything from exceptional academic merit to female computer science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and ... the ROTC program - for many students, this is a great way to make MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  taught me about how to learn and how to work. thanks for your passion ... that have worked hard to care for each other, doing the work of shaping ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me ... grades are very important, so keep working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me ... grades are very important, so keep working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... on Friday. I’m continually running experiments for my UROP to prepare ... to make this experience work for me. And I’m realizing that at the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  on this one. I have really bad travel luck, and I need to plan for ... should, carry your valuables with you, and bring a phone to bathrooms for emergencies and flashlight needs. Don’t wait for things to be taken away to be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

   this semester, I set some goals/rules/guidelines for myself. I didn't stick to ... hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up ... all three of these rivers trying to decide. I think this is true for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in ... just eat at the dining hall for free? (This means I don't go to Boston ... feel so guilty for just trying to fulfill the most basic terms of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... k to be 40 (this works out well for mathematical reasons, but many ... running our comparator on the same 2 numbers 40 log N times. For ALG to work

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  , so we headed down intending to take over their fire and chill for a bit ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting ... our hands on each other’s shoulders, sat in the lap of the person to our

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... produce a better output, compared to the average person working in that ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  , and revised, revised, revised. In order to compete for scholarships, you often have to interview at your school and compete for one of your ... application processes as a way for me to simply learn more about myself and get

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... is an opportunity for you to talk about your involvement in the things

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  darn hard for it. And I'm willing to bet that more than a few students ... -year MIT classes demanding your time, you might tend to study for one more ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... years, like Yuliya's, Selam's,  Jack-William's...) For me personally, CPW was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... used for, she got all excited and introduced herself. I happened to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005