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• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I got to MIT and answer "how I could possibly work here." If we rewind ... a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... school year's tuition looming over my head, so I had to make financially

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  functioned as a more systemic method to organize how I felt about each option ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach ... . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... supplement of material from GEL. 3. Teamwork – Learning how to

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle ... language. How else are you ever going to contribute to the conversation of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  modest person so I don't want to embarass him by saying how FREAKING ... can teach generations of MIT students how to create anything they ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... idea how to make one. Finally, I got the [annotation note="more to come ... on the Internet. Due to my lack of unboxing-video know-how, I didn

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  formulas and facts laid out for me isn’t enough, I have to know how to use ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his ... real-time how we measure up to others. This is a bad idea, regardless of ... told us, "how many times I've seen this happen." The goal is to fire six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the ... -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... coursework, and that’s how to deal with all the parts of your job that aren ... , but luckily some of the core skills of the GEL program taught me how to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  about how to submit work on the web. While we will make every effort to ... music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a music supplement via email addressed to [email protected]. For performers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  needs legs to stand up right? No s***, I thought. But how can I even ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... to how well you do; so when you do receive criticism, it’s always your

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my ... , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to machine, prototype, design, sketch, how to do mechanics and select materials

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of ... things is this blog. I can't tell you how many people told me not to apply ... trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street ... I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006