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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  facts or to present their methods in increasingly different manners. The ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is ... in my brain and I suddenly could only speak in like rhyming verse or ... had slept) to go back to my room in East Campus and I don't know, listen

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... to my alma mater in only a matter of 45 minutes! It was this road that ... Mexican food or hang out with my siblings. Life was good, but I was boxed in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  anime episode--and there is a challenge to managing that time in the best ... , like music, anime seems to have a 20 or 30-year cycle; but since anime ... "you look so pretty!" or "that costume looks badass! nice job!" to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii ... 've sent, or otherwise affirmed your interest in MIT, you will receive an invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... prepared to take either 8.01L or 8.01. I opted for 8.01 because 8.01L continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  just means “place” or “residence”. The poet in me still wants to relate ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... untouched, in the sense that it’s whole, or complete; compare intact, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  or the yoga pants Liz decided to wear into the snow. You can also wear ... 've been able to explore the snow in my hideous moon boots to discover: 1 ... significant chunk of the institute came out to wade knee deep in snow to pelt

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  people seem to be panicking about getting all the required materials in for ... application. In that case, go to your MyMIT account -> “Online Application ... applicants. And do reach out to us if anything wonky has happened or if you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  things that matter to me i never would've expected. in particular, what ... overheard someone ask "what is your direction right now? or are you in a phase ... , almost everyone i know is in it. you don't have to figure out where you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  America, or something. In other news, this is what I see when I log in to ... residence in Massachusetts. All I had to do was bring a credit card statement ... crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... , visited startups in the Boston/Cambridge area to see what a real nascent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  careers they would like to pursue or have one or two subjects that they ... exploration at MIT and if MIT has its way to help people find interests and in ... different majors to help you think about classes and research opportunities in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... available to freshmen (The Basic 14)* costs $3915 per year, or $130 per week ... semester.  Or, in more relatable teenager-money-terms, that's the equivalent

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather ... can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... -school girls who compete in math (and their peers); if you fit that bill (or not) or can relate to it and want to talk about your experiences and/or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I ... work together in order to accomplish their goals in the woods ... called Curveship.js, which allows you to view a story in [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... in need of test subjects. No, they won't pick through your brain or ... things that they show you or ask you to listen to something and follow a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or ... Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for ... going into the Terrascope room or to the physics review session - there

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009