Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  'll provide advice and tips wherever we can. Money and financial aid will be ... Trivia: By population, which US states are most and least represented in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  , and write about their projects second term junior year, then build and ... into the apartment, and have all kinds of grownup things like furniture, lightbulbs, and cleaning supplies under the sink. I thought we'd be done moving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  and returned to real life back in Oregon. For those of you wondering if ... Disney World and Disney Land do an unthemed series of runs.  Disneyland does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  have been reading chess books since grade school and have numerous ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never ... . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  'm cheating) off my lap, open up notepad, and commence my play-by-play of ... ish. I've finished problems 1 and 2. :/ Exhibit A: Is this really 7 ... by Walter Lewin on neutron stars, and now much more of it will be spent

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... like a grown up?" i've thought about this question on-and-off over the ... . filling payroll forms, and talking to hr. signing ndas, calling someone my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  . Why would schools do this? For the money, mostly, because if you make ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of ... rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  - no breakfast from mom in the morning - managing my own money - no ... college is trying new things, exposing yourself to new people , and exposing ... beginning of my MIT career, I spent a lot of my time humbling myself and

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat ... if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all ... describing the definition of that perfect word. And often your friends will say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures ... . '15 and Becca G. '14 organized a last minute spring camping trip with 18 ... this last minute opportunity to relax and have some fun climbing, hiking

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  continuous terms (SB, MS, and now PhD candidate) at the Institute, I have found ... The Tech - MIT's oldest and largest newspaper (established in 1861 ... found quite intriguing (and think you might, too). I especially agree with

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  a little ML model from scratch, and even dunk on large language models ... then Google came along and ruined everything by releasing Gemini, their ... Gemini) uses up-to-date information and seems to know how the new Course 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... remove the heart of this man, and replace it with a piece of wood, that was ... glasses of tea throughout the night. That combination of caffeine and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  term), and 700 undergraduate majors. Don't let the size scare you! - you ... post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  all my hard earned money go, I was too happy to care, and I knew what I ... , every essay that I wrote left me more and anxious about whether I was ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  illustrator will take our script and transform it into the comics you know and ... in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  should be elated -- but it's also complicated, and really difficult, when ... -rival doesn't, and then they start talking shit about you; or, especially, when ... good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  class so interactive and free, but he did, and I am thankful to him for ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... writing and editing this, I realized that I don’t really miss applying, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023