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• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry ... awarded well over 80 million dollars in financial aid to our ~4200

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  failed to come together in the summer of 2012, and I headed out to San ... their products to determine if they were successful. It struck me that, in order to truly improve the education of the millions of students in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me ... want to see another piece of sushi again in my life. For the days since ... relevance to the fields I want to enter. In the past couple of days, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  . For Deferred Students I was deferred. I will never get in RA, right ... only need to send in your February Updates and Notes report, which will ... deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  ), I went to the undergraduate math office in the same hallway and asked ... logged in on the same computer. I emailed the following message to the 3 ... notebook? If so, I'd be happy to come get it from you Thanks, Mitra I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  take the time to get to know them. Hop in a new acquaintance's car for an ... extracurricular commitment, then rushed home at 8:30-9pm or so, to finally get some ... me, had crossed the ocean to attend university in the States - but they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  professors, from people in S^3 (if it pertains to getting good academic habits ... actuality, not everyone has to study intensely through high school in order to get in. Personally, aside from mandatory homework that was assigned

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  in the morning, and I’ve got to get some sleep. D: Okay, old ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... schools. Have you decided which school to attend in the fall? D: No. But it

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... ’s… …and hopefully, I’ll be able to get back to you in a year or two to say ... ’d encountered in the training data, so I asked him to define the romance-space in

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  pharmacy to get cough drops. In addition, a Kazakh teacher at Shoqan had ... same thing in Russian.” I complained to him. “And they still don’t listen to me,” he said, a hint of a smile in his eyes. He added that if

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... the neuroscience department, so in this case 6 and 9 both refer to ... certain if I have ever heard it referred to in words. People say ".009" or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... and forests, the mountains began to part for towns ending in ville and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  ? Lit by a glaring light so that students can continue to work at one in ... ...I think that's going to be a homemade moat/river. And here we get a more ... Every year, the campus is engulfed by frenetic activity in the week

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to ... in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to ... . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  "antimatter". It's similar to Ordinal Markup in that the numbers get really big ... 't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  our tempers and egos to get the better of us. But one way or another, we ... I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first ... , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... "C's get degrees" and move on with my life as soon as possible. But--in ... midterm in a week and half though, so we'll see"]continues to be my favorite

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... waited in a long line to walk through metal detectors. The nice view of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  take over a minute, so I used my phone’s timer to keep myself in check ... didn’t get too much time to draw out the details, so I scribbled some of ... this past summer, I taught CS in Jerusalem to Israeli and Palestinian

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023