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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  some parties, I went to sleep around midnight in hope of getting a good ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  located strategically to get maximal sunshine exposure in the afternoon =p ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  impossible for me to get something to do over the summer. I remember thinking ... GIRs in order to graduate: a biology, a chemistry, two calculus, and two ... to pursue a career in that instead? It would have been better, then, if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  Weekend! (CPW) So I never got to come to CPW when I got in, but after going ... sure to get hotel reservations (MIT has discounts with Marriott - you'll probably get more information about this in the package with your official

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a ... top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... sure going to squeeze in all three.   The Harvard Social Enterprise

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to ... final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... 'll continue to progress. And I won't. And I'll get left behind. There's a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  get used to that. I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief ... black cap and black gown to receive two bachelors degrees -- one in biology and one in brain and cognitive sciences. So as I walked to the exam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... form characters and worlds and stories in my head that have yet to be ... constant opportunities to be exposed to new music in all kinds of genres. So

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  looking to hire MIT students. Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway ... less tasty burgers). Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway. Two ... to catch up on questions and other business here in the blog over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pretty well in high school calc or physics, you may want to get the credit ... big mess while we were in the process of putting things away. We get a limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is ... the option to stay in your temp dorm if you want, although you shouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... semester doesn’t look like it’s going to be any easier. In fact, I got some unexpected good news yesterday from my UROP supervisor—I get to attend CHI

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

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... in the center of the field. My team is all girls, so we're going to get ... my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to ... this evening, but just in case you didn't get a call from me specifically

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... , with medical school acceptances in hand, ready to begin the next chapter ... lab this past semester (and having to walk back to the dorm in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  to multiply multiple-digit-numbers in elementary school, thinking to ... beautiful, and (some) mathematicians do use calculus in their day-to-day life ... mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction ... on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... never quite seem to figure that out and, in true tortoise-and-hare fashion

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  that MISTI is one mens et manus answer to the "study broad" buzz word in ... , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment ... of interactions, so we get to manage our contact with co-workers, local

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011