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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  'm doing the IB course with HL Math, Chem ang Bio. Say if I get admitted to ... sounds silly, but I'm first afraid that if I try to get a position, no one ... isn't done yet!). You just have to find an MIT faculty supervisor to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  applying to the job. The application gets posted every year around the middle ... frequency. We get paid for each post we write, according to the number of ... we don't want to wait until a meeting, or to get a second set of eyes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  passions for math and writing, and that I wanted to get into a selective ... publish two novels anyway), and one day I might want to get an MFA in fiction or screenwriting, but I'd like to get more life experience before

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  didn't get to go last year but I really wanted to go this year. But the ... to Boston, I've been able to get a handle on things. Kind of. My mental ... , 2023s didn't really get this opportunity to ease. Instead, we were kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  formula that will unlock the secret to getting admitted to the college of your choice, taking my advice may not necessarily help you to get into ... -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before, otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the ... central meeting around 6PM, and that's when things started to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... times this past month. We would get up way before the sun rose to drive to ... things that cover your shoes to stop soft ice from getting into them, so my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Life is hard; get used to it. And then I came to MIT, and I realized ... MIT, freshmen get to do things! Freshmen get to be the president of ... ; people often stick around for a few years after graduating, whether to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  looked like. We can't include the code for the function we used to get ... could get from this data set, we decided it would be cool to pick certain ... we filtered the data to get all the variations of "aahhhh." To get all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second ... was so impossible for me to get a double major? Maybe it has to do with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I ... pocket wouldn't exactly get me very far. I realized that I would have to ... how to actually get home walking from Davis. I discovered that there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  required to get across the bridge, even if you take Saferide, is sometimes ... PRODUCTIVITY just don’t know what to do with ourselves. So we actually get to ... ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9:30 so that we could get over to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  since getting kicked off, I’ve tried to turn it from the jumbled mess of ... are much longer than the others.) Of course, things continue to get ... of preparation and hard work. Not getting to see the smiling faces of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  % effective!): A PSA to all MIT students with uteruses: YOU CAN GET AN IUD FOR ... thing and if you're considering getting an IUD, then you don't have to go ... people as this is to me, but I honestly didn't know that I could get an IUD

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  ?) getting better grades than you? It's enough to make you feel like maybe ... 're gonna need a lot of help to get to where you ought to be." It was more ... things to do, doing well in them, getting leadership activities, volunteer

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... traditional-but-not. So now you should definitely come visit me when you get to ... get used to lab procedures/equipments before taking an actual lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  order to both celebrate the coming holidays and to help us get our minds ... messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were ... can't wait to meet you guys come CPW and next year if you decide to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... ask me about (i.e. "Do any normal students get admitted to MIT, or do I ... , you have to put the work in. It's hard, yes... You have to just get up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  him when he gets deferred. i want to tell him, hey! i struggle, and have ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i ... to get them all done after the weekend, even if it meant grinding them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020