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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside ... , but what they grow to be” "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  . specifically: why I chose to major in physics and mathematics how I decided ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class ... /no record, and a friend convinced me to take abstract algebra. in hindsight I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  (sigh). But, I did get to hang out with my friends in House 1/Chocolate ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• 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

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... incentive to get us through the day (like during the memorable week when an ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• 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 / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag ... though. We had a big push to get this website out ASAP when we realized ... commit history to the project repo, which spiked enormously in march

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• 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 / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... the few that actually gets to go to school here. I remember that on one ... wished to get into an ivy league school.  I miss looking through the old

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• 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 / 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