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• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... , need to develop time management skills, or are facing challenges that are ... how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with ... problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  to hop between projects, ask for help or input from anyone else in the ... " or "comparison" it can get tricky!  Finally, in order to test the ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your ... , "Is there a deadline for deferred applicants to send in supplemental material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day-to ... first class back in February, the Georgetown Law students flew up to ... best to learn as fast as we could about the law in the short time we had

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  I was in an independent living group (sort of like a sorority or ... . I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA ... fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I ... a quicker visual tour of campus. Or, just jump around to different ... times beneath the video that you can jump to if you want to see or hear

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang ... bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that ... . Unfortunately, he does not seem to have any MIT ties =( Don't despair! Today, in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  's impossible to see everyone at ISEF, especially only in a single day, but I got ... their project in simple terms for the intelligent layperson, and to help ... finished the talk in half an hour or so, we answered individual questions for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to ... /rock genre and now writes and records a few songs each month. In addition to ... world to listen to. He most recently performed his song "Birds in the Sky

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to demonstrate a strong passion or proficiency in something - playing a sport won

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember ... people said to me, but having fun anyway. I'll talk about this more in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  lot better prepared to be a working adult in a software or a research ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these ... -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk ... going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  information or application materials to be able to make a decision, we will contact you or your school. That being said, it is your responsibility to ... I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  disorganized and/or terrible.  However, this fall, 3.091 is going to be taught in ... the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to ... Essay Evaluation (FEE) or which pre-orientation program to take

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  MIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive a decision ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET.  To check your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... PHONE. OH MAN, I HAVE TO REMEMBER MY SAT VOCABULARY, OR THEY'LL RESCIND ME ... time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  community to participate in what was happening. So did many other people, and ... registration initiative that allows anyone to register to vote in Massachusetts ... registration drive held in the days leading up to the Massachusetts registration

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017