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• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  difficult to get As in certain classes. However, in 8.02, you're told from the ... playing in the background to keep from falling asleep), I completed my epic ... physics in a manner that was "exciting," or so to speak. To me, physics is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read ... hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  to nothing in the long run. 7:30-8:00 pm Sophomore Welcome Dinner ... from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn ... internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college ... handful of years. So, in this post, I wanted to lay out the full context of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  everyday you get to surprise one of the greatest admissions officers in the ... 's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or ... . Conveniently enough, my UROP is in Building E25, almost right next to Senior Haus

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... : Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II! 1. Consider majoring in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get ... Harvard in September. (Like any good MIT student, I still get a little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  of getting in based on your test scores ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case ... potentially rake in tens of thousands of dollars. Reply to no-reply corporate

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... and get ready to head home for the summer! I haven't spent more than two ... not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to ... , and you are looking to send us an update, I would recommend doing so in ... hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  half hours in Montreux before I had to get on the last train back home ... Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... of my musical preferences. So, upon getting to Europe I knew that what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  've adjusted to learning in the MIT system, but I do feel like there are more ways at MIT where you can get help if you want to. Office hours (an hour ... problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  easy." And then when you get that problem done, you can say to yourself ... me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... glad Which reminds me, to save more money Gotta get Dial Gold - as my ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  ’t want to eat the laundry detergent or get it in your eyes. Procedure ... ,000 to 125,000 times (2 meters of DNA in each cell ∙ about 10 to 50 trillion cells in the human body ÷ 300 million kilometers from the Earth to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make ... up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... , who have to get up at absurd times. left to my own devices, I would

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  students to get in without AP classes etc. My school does not offer AP ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... interviews, however, if the nearest EC to the applicant is very far away (as in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  underclassmen wanting to apply at a top university is to get involved in high ... be extremely smart to get in there." Hendrix will be teammates with ... awarded a full scholarship in an honors program to the Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008