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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  Australia) and is a modern-day translation of the Shakespearean classic ... -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  with a degree. There are also a number of subquests for the main quest ... , sleep (pick two). Right now I have all three - a wonderful group of friends I hang out with regularly, decent grades, and 8+ hours of sleep per

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  Institute of Medical Research in Australia. They have other equally ... teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands ... -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes - Shakespeare, Western Civilizations, chemistry, Pre-Calc/Calc, band, and so on - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  intermittently drifts towards daydreams of working remote for some western software ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to love the seattle summer, with every sunset being a thousand shades of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  surplus of academic jobs currently, so getting an offer from a place like ... ultimately got offers from two of those after interviewing at four. You can ... a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll ... waitlist offer) or decline it. For all other students on the waitlist, we

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... some anxiety, I'm happy to answer some of your last minute questions ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT’s deep well of events: book talks, participatory activities, gallery openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016