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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... at MIT. Not to mention the fun of a great flame war. And that's all ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  be weeks where you feel like you're not good enough. Just remember to ... certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is; they ask how your week is. That's because most MIT students take this

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... , the MIT admissions officers. Jeremie L. asked, "I'm curious as to how ... , or will it continue to indicate that the report has not been processed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... what was profitable or how to defend their existing offerings or just ... about how hard they had to work, you will glance at the other MIT grad in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  forgotten to buy cheese :P which prompted one of not two, but ... exhausted and not ready to do it all again in the morning, but such is the ... 2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  thought would take forever to get through. Not that I was concerned, there ... Francisco and fart around there. A nice homeless guy taught us how to buy ... Livescribe and talked to, mostly about how the CEO, Jim Marggraff, was an MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not ... waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to ... happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  about GIR options and resources themselves. An event not to be missed ... are required to not be “CAP-ped” (like the communication requirement for ...  for yourself. Popular HASS Classes: How to (Maybe) Get In Some HASS classes at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  ’m writing it? Because…because… I want to? No, not quite. I mean, yes, of course I want to write. But that’s not why. I don’t know what the why is. I ... rock, burnt the midnight oil, trying to figure out how to promote the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  to any type of stairs and will not slip because the static reactions ... beautifully how to analyze everything, but says that analysis is only a tool ... they died. He says that teachers must educate their students on how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  [/annotation]raved over the aurora: Professor "Sorry to bother folks, but given how many ... This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora ... looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  interesting question, one that took me about four years to figure out how to answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed ... undergrads here have elevated it to an art form. That's not to say you ... Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  . MIT Cocktail Club, here I [annotation note="not to make any cocktails ... , choosing two of three very good things is not the worst problem to have. I ... hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  not need to do anything special to request or claim this extension ... before the deadline? Not to worry! We will still accept required ... to offer you an interview, it will be waived, and it will not impact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  tutor: I think talking to her is very likely to help you. It is not like ... , exactly; I just didn't know how to write that kind of paper. I didn ... public to Nepali for the first time, not reporting my findings to my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  weekend at the WildFire Flow Arts Retreat and learned how to [annotation ... whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me more seriously in workplace environments, how to sound confident when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  . I wanted it to be totally perfect. 100% perfect - not 99%, or even 99 ... not a good idea to staple any part of your college application, actually ... is not due to blind confidence either, as I really felt that my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready/not ... instead as motivation to excel. This is really vague and you may not know ... not regret. The applying-to-college process can be really hard. It was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017