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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  Continuing on the thread began yesterday... With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is ... 's still been done for a couple weeks now :(" And Anonymous wrote, "Why have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  afternoon, I met with my advisor ("reg day meeting"). Typical protocol for ... ! 18.125 is Measure Theory--it's a grad math course with a reputation for ... tech showcase/career fair. I'm pretty done with job hunting ("done with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  Diagnostic results, and HASS-D lottery results.) Fun stuff. I apologize for ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their ... Medical Report and the Supplemental Medical History for Varsity Athletes

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge/Boston area Learn the Ukulele with my roommate Learn to play my brother ... With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling ... psets and late essay-writing nights with Jay Chou mixed with Les Mis

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even ... to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  professor could ask questions for the students to answer with clicker remotes ... condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try ... tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Scientific Researches: «Blink-Free Photos, Guaranteed» (2006) Presented by N ... ; two flashlights; a wire spring; a snuff box; an oil can with potato

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  . You're in college now." Here's the catch. It's MIT, a place with as many ... open dialogue between me and you; feel free to ask me anything. Oh, and

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... mathematical proof for why the sky is blue and the Earth is round (Though that ... So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  semester senior year will rear its head shortly, bringing with it stress-relief and (hopefully) a mailbox stuffed with acceptance letters. These letters ... probably an easy decision for you (at least it was for me.) Hopefully you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  is an amazing, world-changing place. But it's not for everyone ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about ... . Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  . i read an adrienne kennedy play. i scheduled dinners with people i ... to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was ... catching up with old friends and easing back into the rhythms of mit. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  . A crucial note for overseas readers and others unfamiliar with The ... Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The ... named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The hurricane was pretty far from us, so it only ended up raining for about two ... busy with activities, mingling, or eating. There's even a circus school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1.5 hours Recitation: Once a week for 1 hour Problem Sets: 8, not graded Exams ... an MIT class be without some form of software associated with it. In

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  Something unexpected has happened with my classes this semester. Up ... or systems that use it. For instance, the second week, we focused on ... researchers at the Technical University of Denmark, both having to do with the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , and more. Above all, my science bowl team was fun for the simple fact ... ’d use that same structure for our spring competition. With this ... for matches figuring out buzzer systems, managing communication with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Otsuchi with 8 other MIT students and the MISTI-Japan program manager for a ... postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... the other. Therefore, I apologize in advance for the scattered nature of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  transformations on top of this weird spiral?    Much less likely. With enough ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It ... ?). It caught up with me pretty quickly, so I crashed for the rest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015