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• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  , written for a large audience with widespread interests. Great for getting a taste, but what if you really want a closer look? What if you hunger for ... web sites for their admissions programs. These sites are great sources

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  in my [annotation note="PR stands for pull request, a way to request ... model and made a PR for sending [annotation note="the name of a project ... happens in an application, which can be useful for things like debugging

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  violin. Can I walk into MIT, grab a random violin, and play with it? No, I ... someone who doesn't actually know how to play. So...as for lessons ... more about finding a random violin to play with. So if I were you, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  number of times the self check-in has actually worked for me with this ... bored and was looking for someone to chat with, so we started talking and ... two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  them I have to play videogames for a couple hours, read a book, and go to ... Lord knows that I've beat this dead horse and milked this subject for ... combined study in humanities with either science or engineering. 21S is a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... . We will grant a deferral for almost any reason (but generally not for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  settling in for a day of studying but will generally end with a group going ... got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha Phi sorority house with 60 MIT undergraduate woman as the Residential

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  , "If one of our parents is coming with us to CPW, is it okay for us to ... student (yeah!) I would recommend you stay with a host for at least part of ... of Boston, and meeting up maybe once a day with their daughter/son for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  something fun, something I’d enjoy doing for a few years. Something where I ... don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... what you want, with fewer requirements. “Oh, I know a guy doing that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... it with some help or maybe even independently. At your disposal, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with ... to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite was blue-masked, then another guy in my suite appeared one day with a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  first blog weren't clickable. The upshot is that our CDN was for some injecting visibility:hidden to a div at the top of the page. It's been ... able to click on them. With that said - if there are any other bugs that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius ... ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way, let's move on to the pictures... John '11 gets serious with the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  with the lead role of Gogol being played by... Kal Penn?? Sadly, I missed ... the time. For those of you with an Asian Students Club or a Film ... families. Each had dealt with significant challenges -- siblings in gangs, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my ... i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  have become with more free time. I worry that, because of my family ... , I stared blankly at a wall whenever I was hit with a wave of sadness ... for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  open it together with your family or close friends there for support ... . Have some fun! You already deserve it for making it so far in high school ... -long retreat with my church youth group with no Internet access. I also didn

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  University, where for six weeks, I've be living and working with middle school ... lotteries, Senior House makes you fill out a sheet with your top choice rooms ... . (Just For Fun: Click on this link and scroll down to the picture of Senior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  of Chemistry with a passion for understanding fuel cells and other ... - designed to serve as a starting point for students with big ideas (or small ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009