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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  (a factor we would normally not consider since it is so negligible in ... be intrigued. First, a brief introduction. Sanjoy Mahajan is an ... , Prof Mahajan is also a familiar and welcome figure. He has

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  instrument. 1. Do you have to be a music major to perform in MIT's ensembles ... , private instruction. But all students with a serious interest in music ... to them in a given ensemble for the upcoming semester. The faculty will

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... dream early, a summer internship in Corporate America. I applied through ... a cubicle, doing what I love.   Tune in next Monday for the epic

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A ... order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just ... . _________________________________ Q: I have a question about one of the short answer questions. There is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  episode in which I spotted a motorcycle rearview mirror lying by a parking ... . What the heck, thought I, a wave reflector is a wave reflector. Into my ... . Cheapness is a nirvana, and the road to enlightenment is lined with random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... . CourseRoad is a wonderful tool because it lets you toy with alternate ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant "fits" with our culture than if they were No. 1 in their school. If your school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  if there is a party near you! Here is a little taste of some of the ... : Sing-along in San Diego with one of MIT’s very own a cappella groups, the Logarhythms Sunday: Grab a slice of deep-dish pizza in

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  /gardens: And here is Kayla climbing at a local climbing gym in Montreal ... system, so all signs are in metric units. Also, everything is in French in ... were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... , defer, deny) is. Because we have a clear idea of what we are looking for ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  graduate education in the case of a graduate student. The faculty member in ... the “OX” in my grade report as a placeholder until then. I said I ... grades, my GPA had apparently plummeted - ?! OX in 14.04, O in 21A.01, ahh

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  of course, weeks are a Social Construct, and really every day is just ... my friends also in the area, and/or a fun house event. By now, my ... able to get done. Sunday is also Bread Day around here!!!! In addition

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  -to-take-on-the-world prefrosh, is now a slightly jaded, very depressed upperclassmen. It did ... think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... cat, Rory, and I live with the amazing Dan S. '17 in a tiny three-and-a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  forged in injustice as a sword is forged." On Writing is my bible. I ... to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... and film-makers. Mama's Boy is for those raised in the South, are

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  Saturday at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. The event was a smashing ... courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... , turkey, stuffing, pasta. The event space was in a gorgeous arc shape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  ! *Disclaimer: I'm not a computer expert. My goal in this entry is to help you ... Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the ... is that there are laptops everywhere! Proof? I love having a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  infection is a poor choice, just in case you're ever faced with the decision ... , a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my ... as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006