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• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  an online school such as EPGY. Transcripts of these courses, in ... version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that now it has become you know, a staple part of our day? - Hey whatchu up ... Tumblrs that post pictures of fresh designs in architecture, etc. Usually I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... head off to a team meeting. Come to think of it, I've been so busy this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  online and print out their own paperback copies. Kahle says the cost of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  of fish on top) and ever since I discovered this in Japan a few years ... popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52 ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  . An inhabitant of East Campus(5W) and an active member of the class of ... , this is the story of that project. [Disclaimer: What follows is going ... unsolicited advice/storytelling. If that’s not your cup of tea, maybe this will

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  ) One of MITs pilot online courses for their new high-quality online ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  , accounting, marketing, programming languages, video editing, and a ton of other ... installers. Your Kerberos account comes with roughly 2 gigs of space. That ... 'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . I did a little bit of accounting, a little bit of fundraising, a ... job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of the year frenzy when finals come rolling out, and everyone was too ... online again and ready to blog about what's happened so far (: As far as ... to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now ... preview of all the fun that we’re planning this April. Check your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  an AWESOME online food delivery service called CampusFood. Its purpose ... you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a ... ." I "Viewed Menu & Ordered" The rest of it, well, if you care about

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , and will be online at https://decisions.mit.edu shortly. As Ben has ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  the advent of the Wolfram Integrator online, there's no reason for me to ... of MIT's best fifth-year mathematics graduate student integralists. So ... . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... students' perceptions and behaviors. Topics of interest will include: dating ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  where viewers choose which of three new science programs will get picked up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an MIT alumna, Aomawa Shields '97. You can watch the pilot episode online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... requirements. I personally think it's an atrocious amount of classes and way too difficult to schedule[annotation note="lots of classes have pre-reqs and some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025