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Blog / Admissions
Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.
campus can be difficult to navigate for first-time visitors; and parking is ... out of the way. Do your best to find deals for the better hotels on the ... ! How else can I help with your summer visit? For those of you who plan to -
Blog / Challenges
Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.
sports, the marathon - a sport that doesn't even have a side to cheer for ... This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of ... ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome -
Blog / About Decisions
Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…
. So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to ... be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be ... rumors to the contrary, being Black, Latino, Native, or any other minority -
Blog / Challenges
and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor
resign." "It'll be good for you. You'll learn to deal with failure." It ... went to New Hampshire with my roommates for a getaway, a break right ... hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to -
Blog / MIT Life
Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.
it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face ... , because sometimes I want to sleep for only, say, 7 minutes before my clothes ... paying for it. They were closing so I didn't want to trouble them to make -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!
seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Hint of fall A Sunday adventure
, looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... to find some residential trees. For whatever reason, they were mostly -
Blog / How to Human
So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?
. This got me thinking: what would a success profile for an MIT student look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of -
Blog / Athletics
Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes
“trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... as you look for the opportunities. I didn’t know where to look last ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random -
Blog / Academics & Research
On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.
for those who just tuned in) kid, I have to take this *one certain class ... You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT.” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high -
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,…
're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to try out for their annual competition, Mic-Check. If a student had a poem -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…
lead to greatness in any field. But for me, and for any performing artist ... [by Danbee Kim '09] My mother, like any other parent, likes to keep tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she -
Blog / Academics & Research
Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.
schedules to tell you what my scheduling looks like for the upcoming semester ... space for electives, and deciding which exactly to take is hard! (yes ... classes). This makes for my most productive day ever since coming to MIT (I -
Blog / IAP
Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP
like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a -
Blog / Events
Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study
. Fortunately for society, I was able to ignore my toe pain and battle the alien ... 's not like I was planning to do anything except sit inside and study for ... Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www -
Blog / People & Identities
living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self
hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha ... with my friends. i'm really excited for the chance to hang out with ... *spiritual cleanse.* shoutout to my difficult and tumultuous semester for -
Blog / Academics & Research
three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf
really easy for you to build radio receivers with a car antenna and a ... in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two ... cats, camping out in the kitchen warmth. everyone raiding the fridges for -
Blog / Academics & Research
Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
if you’re looking for a detailed curriculum, go to http ... everything you need to know for your more advanced EECS classes - Differential ... to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 -
Blog / Life after MIT
Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away
It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and
