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• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  classes on [annotation note="my year is allowed take up to 4 classes of ... -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in ... an IAP post: what I did, what I thought. Which was a lot, on both

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I ... . IAP provides a huge number of experiences to take advantage of. Here is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... wanting the professor to think I'm some kind of idiot, or that I just don ... enough to be in an intellectual atmosphere that is nothing short of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th ... comprised of C-130s. Thirteen other cadets on the visit and I were split up

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  "employed", this is essentially what went through many of your minds on Pi Day ... enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... match is also an important factor that isn't as commonly discussed, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... is moving quickly! All of this is good news for those of you excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  job based on where you want to live or based on which job maximizes ... on ai research. part of it is because i have a hard time committing to ... . the part of their work which i'm excited about is developing ai tools

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  to real life. A GRT is MIT's version of an RA -- I guess at most ... with my gut feeling on which was the better environment for me. 3. Timur ... nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  or did you contact the coach and (this is going to sound stupid) how ... believe that neither school is better...necessarily. Of course I have MIT ... before you were admitted? If so, please advice me on how to do that (and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  , to be clear, is a vanity metric and not indicative of much, but it ... all of their achievements (or lack thereof), reducing a person to their ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  ; on the unfulfilled or shattered promises our nation has made to ... / Pueblo) is a father of two from Tohatchi, NM on the Navajo Nation. He is a ... , and serves on her program’s Student DEI Committee. Kristy is a member of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  clearly predicated on the responses of all the other competitors and is luck ... of students in this case is the number of people who play Game 5). To ... which they would like to penalize the lowest quartile of donors. The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  like there is never enough exploring of Boston to be done, so be on the ... this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... advice is to say you don't watch sports or say your favorite team is any

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  most important of which is the Great Court. That's the place I head anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... city to city across the country, visiting all the companies doing work on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  " ***** "...so apparently [fruit punch?] is a good source of red-40..." ***** on one of those "use revolving door to conserve energy" signs Energy is ... competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... to new things is fun though. When the year goes on and I become

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  Spring semester is here, which means summer is coming up soon, and ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  career or classes to mark the passage of time. For me, that is pages read ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... with him. That is absolutely one of my biggest regrets. That job led to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016