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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Somewhat Random A little news bite.

  

  JK Rowling announces Harry Potter Book 7 Title Not completely unrelated to MIT...well yea, but since finals are over and my brain is still ... several other appearances in my time at MIT: I was pretty excited when Book

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing What Back? I don't think so.

  

  [ETA] (I have actually seen snow before. MIT students are not actually so dumb that they don't know what snow is. Except for Keri. Who lives in Florida, anyway??)(No, don't answer that.) Dear Bryan, I woke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country, and will be spending Independent Activities Period (IAP) in Zambia! We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT blog and I'm in Switzerland. I could ramble philosophically about MIT life - I've certainly done it before - but a lot of my big rambles have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  Episode 6 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is available today. Stories include highlights from this year's 2.007 Robotics Competition, the "seeing machine", and the awesome Disco Dance Floor (!). Check it out: Hosting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up. They include: 6.186: MasLab 6.270: Autonomous Robot Design Competition 6.370: Robocraft Now the one I'm most familiar with is Robocraft since my roommate

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  the next best thing is the webcast, live today at 2pm Eastern Daylight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  room. This is what the MIT News Office wrote about it when it was built ... Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the ... this one with you: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:25:08 -0500 To: suma@mit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  for financial aid applicants (and remember, MIT is need blind for all ... , direct them to Daniel, MIT's Director of Financial Aid.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate—regardless of major—is $126 ... MIT Career Advising & Professional Development guides all students—current and alumni—as they explore and prepare for careers. Whether
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  very tightly. But the fundamental problem is that MIT is just not a very ... riff-raff or something. But MIT is a small school, and I (and all the ... down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  freshman year at MIT is over. Let's take that apart, shall we? The phrase "My freshman year at MIT is over" is a bland, unemotional statement. The phrase "My freshman year at MIT is over" says nothing about the morning I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, is also known as “that other place across the pond ... Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I ... ). Now you wonder what in the world I am doing here, on MIT Admissions blog

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT ... ’m streaming/blogging live from MIT and I’m indescribably excited to start ... ’re smaller quests you can complete alongside the main quest (which is, of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and ... 't get into MIT with a 1430/2150, especially if your math score is sub-700

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... design at MIT: I've said this before, but the pursuit of free food is a ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  This past month has been my first IAP spent entirely at MIT. IAP is a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings ... fully realized how dominated the city is by MIT until a large fraction of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  . Of course, what makes MIT difficult is that you are faced with ... thus the pace is certainly more intense for a given semester at MIT ... a single year at Cambridge, than in my first two years at MIT. This is

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008