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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  !" or "'I don't like sand' is just too great of a piece of dialogue to ... must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , like 80 F, or 27 C, which is standard in Tucson for most of the year. But ... return is so lovely.   The pros of biking: exercise! I went to ... the draw of being able to chill out on the commute, rather than being

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  some sort of plan on what you want to take, but that is not at all ... thing on your plate right now is figuring out when to take the Freshman Essay Evaluation (FEE) or which pre-orientation program to take

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an ... course, the grade changes to I/X, where X is the official grade which ... entire grade) and get a final grade based on that, or choose to get an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to ... Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  is an admittance of being afraid to trust the author… anyway watching ... "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... to occupy myself with.  my friend Espen S. ‘27 invents a lot of games

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... many visitors on campus is as if about ten Campus Preview Weekends took ... pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  and on my own hours, which was very useful when I was in Pacific Time ... on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer ... of reach This is a post about feeling hosed and wishing it would go

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT ... information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  pull a four or a five out of my ass I'd want to take physics all over ... , it is a significant investment of time to do the problem sets. Another option is to take it self-paced through ESG. there's kind of no reason to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban Program, which is one of MIT's many pre-orientation programs.  FUP focuses ... Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... involve an embarrassing, toddler-y lack of coordination. Moving on.) Now

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  different parts of your application. On your MyMIT site, you will find the ... that you list on your application. If we have any questions or ... note that MIT is not a member of the Common Application. MIT has its own

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  [/annotation], or do dumb sidequests, which this game is FULL of. But it's just such a ... process of creating a remake. I could go on about how meta this is, and how ... was forcing myself to. I do sort of wish that they had ended the game on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a ... while the other was working on it (think of wikis or google docs ... is seriously paying off, and I better get my business suit out of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  likely to infuriate or simply leave a scientist nonplussed. And nothing, of ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  harder to take). Speaking of which, you should check out my friend Phil ... 've refused to use chapstick of any flavor, texture, or bee-produced ingredient ... 10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... is when I was able to shoot. I shot in the first air pistol round of ... enough to withstand mass quantities of food. Back on the bus after a group

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  " part of "friend group," you’re on your own when it comes to [annotation ... spaces, one of the best things is that you can just pop into the hallway or ... to yap has taken hold, and I shall oblige it, because orientation is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024