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• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... those AP classes and all of those activities." Here are two of the ... the work of the textbook and the work of the imagination. Too many times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a ... I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly ... committee called the House Dining Advisory Group (HDAG), composed of administrators and students, was set up to explore new options. At the end of this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... - considering I probably spent upwards of several weeks over the last three years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the semester learning pretty much all of the basic biology techniques, from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... walked out of the room to talk with his supervisor), Stephen sitting across from me is doing some crazy-impressive mapping of the Whirlpool galaxy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when ... excerpts from the mit best of the blogs. [caption id="attachment_52458

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT ... port of call - namely, the offices or dorm rooms of anyone willing to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  ,[annotation note="including photos of each of the 46 points of interest"]many of ... th—Back Bay Fens, #25-32 I started part one of the journey with the ... three trips, the first of which would be the trek from Next House all the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They challenged us to think about the "optimal, ideal inhabitant of the world" and ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... watch Netflix during the semester, aside from the occasional episode of ... . i started consuming all sorts of media: the movies Black Swan

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  of our current all-star bloggers like Paul or even some of the ... an important part of the social and extracurricular fabric of the MIT ... projects. Members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity participate in the March of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... : Receive a degree in Physics, because I love Physics. This is a large part of ... of the post - trust me when I say that you want to read the description

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I ... past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... have frequented since I had the intention of applying to MIT, I suddenly

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly ... represent some of the best and brightest stars of our future. We are honored ... , but because of the highly selective nature of our process, we did not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  made from a sort of nostalgia -- writing in the language of his land, his ... characters are humans instead of the oceans) my friend brought up a quote related to the series. It went along the lines of: the reason that it's

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically ... good guide to making the most of it here. I also met Ashu, one of the ... , founded the center and pioneered the field), so it's a bit of a home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and having a dozen of my friends hype me up from the front rows made me perform

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020