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• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  " to "Salsa Dancing". Students in grades 9-12 can sign up for classes and ... never even considered or known to exist! If you're in high school and feel ... students everywhere can get a chance to get mindblown by the awesomeness that

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  as good as it gets. I get to oversee all aspects of student life and ... and how MIT helped (or didn’t) get them to their current level of ... not get to hear from everyone, I hope to get a broad sense of community

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... plan is to post more in depth about this in the future, after I figure

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... places in Boston (EDIT: an important "at" was omitted leaving it to appear ... should read "Eaten at new restaurants in Boston" to avoid confusion) 5

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  to get a coffee and read a book in front of the Winter Palace. I don ... This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  Until Mystery Hunt 2006!!! Here's a little puzzle to get you ... cannibals and put to the following challenge: Each shall get one hat of either black or white (unbeknownst to them). Then, they will be asked in

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of ... , and there will be ample space in the application to explain any issues
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a ... 'm doing the IB course with HL Math, Chem ang Bio. Say if I get admitted to ... -- they're different) to the courses at MIT. In my statistics class (9

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

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer analyst” starting in October, but it is good to explore professional

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  bathrooms in the meche department. cross-registrant themed 1. bus to Harvard ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a ... . It was then that I decided I wanted to do theater in high school. So ... . From novices who are just getting started to experienced people looking

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4 ... /grill/restaurant in Boston that has half priced burgers on Saturday). There are getting

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... ): You'll say hi to the friendly receptionist and then sit down, in one of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being ... . So is anyone ever going to update the online IHTFP hack gallery? I get ... this stuff, which probably took dozens of man-hours to make, up in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  he lives, thus he is reactionary in his approach to education. Mills ... with little effort. Performing well in the classroom and getting good grades seemed to just came naturally to him. In fact, he was more likely to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... major upsides No Rent - I get to live at my parents’ house for exactly ... company email. Pull up the spec that I need to work on. 8:40 AM- I get lost

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016