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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really ... from a college application. When I wrote essays for undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  dress for a blizzard... If you're from a warm place and you are a ... though it's blizzarding -- I have the answer for you: fleece lined tights ... lightheated... And then people went for it. By 5pm we were able to catch

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious ... relaxed and talked for a few hours before my eyelids started drooping and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... for an admissions or selections committee is HARD. It's not like ... called an Application Essay, Objectives for Graduate Study, Personal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started ... ? He kept going. Let me demonstrate for you. He walked up to my boards ... at that moment, I had no idea what I was arguing for, what my project

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  participating in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange Program. For those who are not aware, MIT has organized an exchange program with Cambridge University for the ... programs for a reason: to broaden the students’ horizon, develop our life

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for ... tuned. But for this video, it was our goal to give prospective students a feel for our campus and what it looks like,  full of awesome buildings

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  shooting outdoor footage from the terrace in Simmons Hall for a practice ... interesting to watch while taking STS.064J, and analyzing it for how he used ... ://web.mit.edu/mitso/ for more info.

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... especially awesome. Thank you for being awesome. Full speed ahead!   ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article, Kahneman describes his time working as a psychologist for the Israeli Army

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  full swing soon, and for East Campus, that means lots and lots of stuff ... .) For the record, the current weather is gorgeous. This year, it's all a bit less glorious, because the city of Cambridge decreed, for the first

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... different packets with readings for the next few weeks, and I am finding that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation ... than 1100 students who are all excellent matches for the MIT mission and ... : 862 Just For Fun Most Popular Boy's Name Alexander Most Popular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US ... "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  - you should definitely come if you're here for CPW. Details: CPW Closing ... -hop/modern) - Live Music Connection Guitar-off (electric guitars, shredding) (For ... , Lobdell Dining Hall (2nd Floor of the Student Center) (Click here for a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Thelonious Monk song for a recent 21M.340 assignment. Hopefully, we are not ... channel model for machine translation!" Google: "Sure thing! GRAPHEME BASED ... for it, which is so good that literally every university with an

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... for the day when he would not have to spent 2.5 hours [every day] of his ... 'm headed off for an hour or two, when I come back I'll update this blogpost

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing ... (which might seem weird to some of you, but for me it’s actually really ... pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  there's no shortage of activities and information for you at CPW, too. Heck, we have a whole page just for you, plus at last count there were ... webcasting live tomorrow night beginning at 10pm EDT; check your email for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  would sacrifice an afternoon nap for a one-mile walk across the Harvard ... in my physics classroom for a late-night review session. Somehow, I ... Yankees tickled my sense of humor to no end. I believe my love for MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009