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• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... the excitement lied in the fact that I was not expecting to get into MIT ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I do well in high school to get into a good college. I do well in college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  in Boston for the summer is a very, very good idea. I got to get to ... to October...) and building gliders for it. Running away from getting ... .  (4) She had to retaliate against getting cake smeared on hers. >

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  before every lecture (1.5 hrs MW), so I opt to listen in and annotate those ... happened to be leading up to our first exam, which we’re allowed to bring in ... Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  disabilities services to talk about how I can get around and get caught up in my ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  , technician jobs). Some people choose to get their master's in order to build up ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  countless airline stewardesses, and went back to sleep. In my dreams, I ... processed foods at the Harvard Fall Festival (not in any way related to ... no doubt trying to calculate the tension in the cable, deserves a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  , and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send ... voting tactics to win, as others in the competition have – we ... successful and failed policies have been deployed to address it in the past; [2

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  available online in addition to the standard postal mailing. We expect to ... (the system is unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log into

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two ... the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days ... that last one up), but it mostly just boils down to you getting hosed by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I ... [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  . PS. Points to who can get the pop culture reference in the title. PPS ... getting snapped at by a vendor for analyzing the fruit too much, we began to ... pineapples, so of course, I used my trusty sidekick Google to get me through it

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  typical) but as someone (maybe a child) who knows how to get places ... . Experience the weight of knowledge. Get frustrated at having to ascend or ... Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  actually in Building 26, which is now home to MIT's most well-known lecture ... professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in ... from a similar concept called computer timesharing back in the 60's

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  past year getting to know each other, and I'm glad we'll have to next ... sometimes, you want to be a little subtle in your MIT pride, while still ... shirts to any location.I would appreciate if you mentioned this in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  again to the MassArt registration office to turn in your new form, get it ... registration office (and get greeted “Oh hello again.”) to turn in a copy of your ... form. Step 10: Give in said form to the registration office in Mass

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  to the gym!” and when that doesn’t work, “Get to the gym… seriously ... Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... (in MechE!) from MIT in 1984 and the book is about his educational

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  ." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made ... wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center ... If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005