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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much ... homework is so, so time-consuming. Chem and Calc have problem sets due each ... mind staring at multiple pages of scientific jargon. My HASS is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  .) Repeat. Or not. Whatever. 6.) Decorate! Observe! This is us making hand ... without looking: Happy Jonathan (07) and Mary (our GRT): Something is ... the food unveiling. Mike (08) is excited about Thanksgiving: First

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we ... with that? It is true that we have not utilized the waitlist in the past three years. It is hard to know beforehand exactly how many students will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  in Mammalian Biology) class that the MIT biology program is doing away ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  " - answer email, be attentive to the MIT forum on CC, etc. To me, this is ... reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading ... which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me ... . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  conclusions," Dr. Perelman said. "Because M.I.T. is a place where everything is ... New York Stock Exchange (maybe I'll see fellow MIT alum and NYSE CEO ... conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... said, I went into MIT without a concrete idea of what exactly I was ... college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  sometimes feel like MIT is just another institution telling me, either ... time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  awesome people I hope never regret choosing MIT, or our hall. Although you ... year because every week is an endless parade of job applications and ... people looking for jobz like me. Unfortunately, MIT classes have some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... registrar’s academic calendar) (life has its own messy timeline, which is ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  from THE SCHOOL YEAR is that my calendar looks blissfully white and empty ... with MIT life. It has to do with the non-MIT life: the pre-MIT life, the between-MIT-semesters life, the free time commodity. Here's how I spent it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and ... explanation is in the next section. If you ARE familiar with it, skip ahead ... of this phenomenon if people expressed interest. So, here it is. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... 's worth mentioning that the major I wrote down on my MIT application is NOT ... land far, far away (approximately 3270.65 miles* from MIT), there is a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  infinite/amorphous time void that is IAP. Although I had plenty of wonderful ... about teaching at MIT. How would you describe yourself/what do you do? I ... tell stories in so many different mediums. How did you find MIT and what

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  relaxed as my MIT language classes - in fact, Arabic is the only emotionally ... favorite class. I guess this is what they mean when they say MIT students are ... , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  after giving blood. MIT is really like that. Anyway, somebody had a ... first term at MIT. There is an advanced standing exam, but don't even ... DID YOU KNOW? Bonsai Kittens were a hoax started by MIT students

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  workplace is no MIT. I didn't quite understand what they meant by this when I ... : the workplace is no MIT. This past summer, I found myself struggling to ... , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  imperfect fragments of our nostalgia. Three. MIT is not a place. It's never ... 've probably picked up that a big part of what people love about MIT is the ... You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021