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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  acting. Every week we're responsible for memorizing a monologue or a scene ... a total lie. It all depends what the letter stands for. Well, I'm not actually sure what the J "stands for," but it means that a course is offered

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  out of the program. In her long experience writing for a few different ... the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student ... research assistant for a few professors in my area of interest, and basically ... callback I got was for a position running web communications at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  and quirky people you will ever know- yes. For learning how to live a ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... -complete search feature easily transforms Google from a resource-filled virtual

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all ... for food, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm planning on heading over

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... everyone headed out for the break. There were a lot of preliminary project deadlines. I gave a presentation for the Multimodal User Interfaces class

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

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  … had a BLAST! 2:00 am – walked back to MIT. Stopped at 7/11 for a snack ... companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who ... decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  this when my 8.01L pset was due in a couple hours and it was 11:30PM at ... dorm is right for me? I think this is something really important that I ... -full of questions for all of us current MIT students and I find myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  diverse and talented group of students who are a good match for MIT's unique ... otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is ... our students are ready for that [annotation note='A reader might

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult at a hair doctor and they told me there was nothing they could do for

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to ... friends and a great support system, but academically I'm unsuited for MIT. I ... 've been trying to write out into words for a long time. I'm really scared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  times, looking for where 188 could possibly be. Alan: We found a variety ... a key component for much of the rest of the scavenger hunt. This is ... ’re welcome.)"]was extremely useful.[/annotation] It contained a few important

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever ... /Harris Program for Private Study" - MIT provides a program for instrumentalists and ... programs, and, for a brief period of time, I was thinking about applying to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  especially for freshmen- so if all freshmen were required to take a CI class ... ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk ... forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways ... been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... happens [for] ~4 days every [annotation note='these are 11 years long ... chaser, you might wanna mute your channel for 8 hours." "We got a really

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in ... education. Yes, for most departments at MIT, technology will be a frequently ... spare parts and a tool box. Grommit had 5 questions, for which I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... face made for a virile sensory cocktail that stayed in my nerves

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  believe that diversity is important for MIT's continued academic excellence ... class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... 's controlled for major, equal leadership and participation in extracurricular

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016