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• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... and now I see her every day in the house, on campus, or as I cross the ... tour to know I worked in Admissions instead wanting them to get pay

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  days to account for the way Christmas, New Years, etc fall in any given ... to participate in just about any of them. There are for-credit classes ... dent in that to do list! So if you've emailed me any time since the new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  rights. Oh, and in case you're wondering -- this number has nothing to do ... A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... Euclid. They are also related to Mersenne primes: every Mersenne prime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  the country might look like or how far I went to stick out on this ... think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... have been my choice in shirt and tie combination. Basically, each

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  to get off the train and insist on going around the loop three or four ... waited to make my transfer to the red line on Park Street. Being back in ... closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  ’s joy in challenge, in starting out having absolutely no idea how to begin ... the rumble of cars. A few people are still in the lounge studying or ... -inducing attention due to some build-up of work from the past few days, or to the fact

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the ... Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -flung audiences that might not otherwise be able to visit MIT or speak to an ... a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  the time, because if I have time to write, I'm writing code, or writing ... Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to major in course 4 and course 5, respectively. ... I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a ... bad hand". the chorus has been stuck in my head for the last few days ... vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up if something falls through, but I've received at least 40-50 emails or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  in under-resourced countries or finding new ways to study underwater ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in ... similar to the "nerd herd" who shamed me in high school. However, after

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I ... later in the term. There are lots of small details which never seem to be

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is ... modeling from finger motion, to walking motion [in progress]. Technically, I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... ), happens to be pals with Mark Bathe, who is a professor in course 20, who ... following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to work on games or game-adjacent technology. I majored in CMS to ... them, but in total, it comes out to something like 35-40, hence the ... day. I did go to like 5 countries in Europe over various trips

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  here. If you're interested in athletics here, or student life--or heck ... . With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a ... where a lot of people sit in a very small skinny rowboat and row super

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems ... closely related to the behavior of an elaborate function ζ(s) = 1 + 1/2s

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005