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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... i left boston to start my internship about 3 seconds ago. i talked to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  the Occupy Movement and worked to figure out shelter possibilities for ... in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of ... to grilled cheese. Avocado? Peanut butter? Bacon? We know how to ... cheese H Entry: Creative Cooking with H Entry Learn how to survive and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much ... spire that is a vibe. it makes me think about how it's so, so unlikely for me to be here, right now, and that it's hard to tell how much of me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  unique to the MIT community. We don't have cutoff scores for the SAT or ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We ... a sense of what we look when selecting students for admission
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered ... . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another institution, while holding out hope for good news from MIT. Those not offered

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... to MIT Medical, where they tested me for strep (negative. First test ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... stretch for me to have gotten to the American Civil War from there. I grew ... required me to take a CI-M class, I opted to keep afternoons free for a 20

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during ... What's that? You're dying to find out how we managed to ice skate on Frog ... , who spoke next to no English, to ask for directions. Me: Hello! Would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible ... be helpful for me to do some brainstorming in public proposal: i want ... ’ll actually be able to tell how accurate what i’ve written above is until i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  Jamilla Jamison (formerly of our office, now at Harvey Mudd), about how to ... RSI for this coming summer, where he hopes to continue the math research ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  -tuning the software for SandScape, but I'm also going to start updating the ... my goals for this summer. After announcing to my roommates that I was ... for a free guided tour. The whole thing threw me back to when I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  family. Then I flew back to campus for three weeks of IAP, which I filled ... excited. Excited because I'm always excited for a chance to learn new ... My freshman winter break and IAP were very nice, nothing to complain

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... blogiversary to all of us. Thanks to the '09s for being our guinea pigs; and a ... 't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  packs of 5 for $3) and they're great to store in the bathroom. Wash them ... to MIT for an education? It helps to bring notebook paper, binders ... of now I think you can make local calls for free. If you're like me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... out my visa wasn't a long enough period for me to buy the phone under my ... , I think, and I start to get defensive. What's in it for her? Why is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  ). Look for Evan's blog to launch later this month. So where have I been ... a plane to California for the Ivy-Plus conference. This conference ... month ago. Sorry guys, I apparently thought I was Nance for a second there

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  would it take for the egg to hatch?" or "how do you know there's no baby ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... right that i could do to prepare for this course. i told myself that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023